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  • ” I loved the book, mostly because it is filled with writing exercises inspired by sp...remember
 them. Expressing and listening to one’s own life story is an ancient mode of healing. How do we learn t...
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  • As a psychotherapst, before I retired to write, I learned how very much memory is perception - we remember not the details of that event itself, but our experience and...
  • I've tried to plot of characters, the story line, the places, make profiles and time-lines but it generally slows me down and those novels are now stuck. The latest on...
  • I find when people are scared or nervous about writing, they're the least self-conscious when it comes to describing food: either buying it, making it, or eating it. F...
  • We sat in silence for the simple reason that that there were no more words to be said. Seated in the passenger seat of my 1978 Datsun, I stared out the window as the p...
  • Hello friends -  It's wonderful to hear about your projects, Judith, Laura, and Jenny - I'm inspired and awed by you all with your finished manuscripts! Mine is FAR fr...
  • Here is a memory that came when I was listening: I had a friend over and my parents were going to drive her home.  We stopped at my father’s feed mill to fill up the c...
  • Hello. I was an actress, long ago (1974-82), and then went into journalism, factchecking, editing and writing for Saturday Night Magazine in Toronto and the city magaz...
  • This Spring my first novel, "The Season of Second Chances" was published. It is, nominally, about a teacher who moves from her emotionally disconnected, Columbia Unive...
  • Nice. Edited out a couple of words. If I ever get published and this ends up being my opening line, I'll have to give credit, where credit is due. :-) Sometimes a mem...