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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Why Do We Write?
Decades earlier when I was working and living in Dubai, with a small group of friends we formed what was then the first writers’ circle. We were all expatriate women, coming from different cultural backgrounds with one thing in common, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, book, books, characters, creative writing, diary, digital, dreams, Dubai, emotion, English, Ernest Hemingway, feelings, fiction, friends, happy, home, ideas, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, novel, people, poetry, society, story, thoughts, UK, war, words, work, write, writer, writing
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The Impulse To Write A Novel
“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.” Angus Wilson Throughout the years I have always loved and appreciated the simple things that life has thrown my way. I thrive on the relationships I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, book, books, characters, creative writing, dreams, easy, emotion, energy, English, essay, feelings, fiction, happy, home, ideas, journey, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, music, novel, people, picture, poetry, story, teacher, thoughts, University, words, work, write, writer, writing
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Sweet Panic
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain For the past few weeks I’ve been hesitant to start on my new project. Each time I decide to sit at my desk to write that first chapter I end … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, baby, blog, book, books, characters, creative writing, dreams, emotion, English, essay, feelings, fiction, happy, home, ideas, imagination, journey, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, novel, people, poetry, run, running, story, teacher, teaching, thoughts, words, write, writer, writing
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Crossing The Finish Line
“All human happiness and misery take the form of action.” Aristotle Years ago when I started writing my first novel , I had a full time job teaching in a school, and my two children were then in school, the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, blog, book, books, characters, children, creative writing, dreams, emotion, energy, English, feelings, fiction, happy, home, ideas, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, music, novel, people, poetry, publishing, running, school, story, teaching, thoughts, words, work, write, writer, writing
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Never Talk To Anyone
“However am now going to write a swell novel- will not talk about it on account the greater ease of talking about it than writing it and consequent danger of doing same.” Ernest Hemingway (in a letter to F. Scott … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, blog, book, books, characters, creative writing, discovery, dreams, emotion, English, Ernest Hemingway, essay, feelings, fiction, happy, home, ideas, imagination, journey, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, music, novel, passion, poetry, song, story, teacher, thoughts, words, write, writer, writing
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Where Did The Writer Go
“Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.” Oscar Wilde Have you seen Richard Eyre’s film Iris, … Continue reading
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