Since the main character/narrator, Rosalind, in my book relies on stories from her pas...oed in my head as I wrote, its lovely Southern lilt lulling me into a creative mode just as surely as opera. Bec...
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That's not an elementary question at all. Getting started isn't hard for me because wh...k in the voice of a child for a few pages. Something about shifting OUT of the mode I'm working in gets me intere...
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I don't have an MFA. My bachelor's degree is in journalism and my master's degree is i...it comes to fiction writing, I think the school of life is as important as any mode of formal education. That sai...
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I was halfway through “Homegoing” before I began to connect with it.
As Yaw, a histor...dependence.
Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in America. I suspect Yaw was modeled on her father, of whom she...
It was where movies stars used to go and rest up, be pamper...script their agents had just sent over. A series of modest bungalows set around a beau...setts. Back when his books didn’t sell or sold only modestly, they lived in a much sma...
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Why do I write? I believe that moments of pain can be redeemed, that in the right hands they...
@Penny:I understand your point, but I could no more stop running that I could stop wri...I need both to survive, and running marathons keeps me in perpetual "training" mode, that way I don't fall off th...
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When not on sabbatical, I work for a human rights organization and edit news releases...Indigenous communities. I sometimes go into what I call "cold-hearted editor mode" where I'm only thinking abou...
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Beautiful! So beautifully said! Thank you.
As a journaling teacher for over three deca...hear our voices and words, drops us into a listening, reflective-contemplative mode wherein we are received. Rece...
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