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Aug 1, 2014
August 2014 - La Vie est Belle
We live in troubled times. Some of these troubles have been self-produced, others manufactured by people willing to feed off of the fears...
Jul 1, 2014
July 2014 - Marcel Proust
I have attempted several times to read the first volume of seven of À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), the novel by...
Jun 1, 2014
Short Story or Novel?
June 2014 For many years I aspired to be a short story writer. I wrote several short stories and asked friends to read the drafts of...
May 1, 2014
May 2014 - On Greek Tragedy and Modern “Drama”
Perhaps it was because I was born into a Greek tragedy that I somehow managed to avoid reading any of those classic plays. I, however,...
Apr 14, 2014
March 2014 - W. B. Yeats
St. Patrick's Day 2014 During the early spring of 2010 while I was writing the draft of THE DAWN (which was at that time called...
Apr 1, 2014
April 2014 - The Writer Speaks
It is a difficult, demanding hunger - the need to create. One must fill the senses with the sense of exhilaration, even joy, in the...
Feb 2, 2014
Some of the Story Behind the Stories
February 2014 My husband and family have been and continue to be the highest priorities in my life. They have inspired me to develop my...
Feb 1, 2014
February 2014 - Voice of the First Person
W. Somerset Maughham W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham, the British doctor-turned-writer, is one of my favorite novelists. He...
Jan 3, 2014
January 2014 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a very conservative (in its original meaning), upright Victorian...
Dec 24, 2013
Christmas 2013 - Gifts from Writers
As the year comes to an end and holidays are celebrated, I would like to offer some gifts in a literary vein to anyone who enjoys good...
Dec 1, 2013
December 2013 - Diatribe, Data, and Doctrine Disguised as Fiction
During my many years of study to become a novelist, I encountered these forms of writing that purported to be fiction and were even...
Nov 1, 2013
November 2013 - Louis L’Amour
It was not until I moved West from the East that I learned about Louis L’Amour, and it was a rather chance encounter that informed me of...
Oct 31, 2013
Halloween 2013 - Plot, Character, and Scene
I attended a Writer’s Conference in the early 1990s on the “up and coming plots” for the future, the ideas that a writer needed to focus...
Oct 11, 2013
Columbus Day 2013 - Buying a New Laptop
The time has come for me to buy a new laptop. I have worn out another keyboard. In addition, the battery of this HP has conked out. I...
Sep 20, 2013
Autumnal Equinox 2013 - Brave Heart
20 September 2013 One weekend during this past summer I took a much needed break from composing the first (and hopefully only) draft of...
Sep 2, 2013
Labor Day 2013 - Blithely Unaware
In the essay entitled “Unplugged,” I stated that I do not recognize the names of most current “actors” and “actresses.” It is indeed...
Sep 1, 2013
September 2013 - On Composing THE DAWN
Sometime during the middle of February 2009, while I was just beginning the draft of what was then named “Nottingham,” Dear Reader sent...
Aug 15, 2013
Mid-August 2013 - Unplugged
It has been en vogue for quite a while for various musicians, especially guitarists, to become “unplugged.” They play their songs that...
Jul 14, 2013
Bastille Day 2013 - The Eiffel Tower
14 July 2013 Guy de Maupassant, the prolific, successful short story writer par excellence, was but one of a sizable number of...
Jun 14, 2013
Flag Day 2013 - Google Knows How I Work
Friends want to know how I work -- what I do to get “the creative juices flowing.” Husband said it might be the subject for an essay. I...
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