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The Writing Body Eclectic
Henry James dictated. Hemingway wrote standing up. Tom Wolfe writes his prodigious novels longhand on yellow legal pads. Bodies in motion, eclectic because various. Let’s think about the need to respect the needs of the body that writes. We think, our minds make up stories, poems, ideas worth sharing, but unless we have the physical…
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How Do I Revise?
I’m not sure anymore what revise means, but what I am doing with the novel ms is rewriting. Yes, I am retyping every chapter, sentence by sentence, sometimes word by word. In this time of cut/copy/paste, people often look at me as if I were hopelessly stupid. But this is actually my third pass at the…
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The Mystery about Mysteries
I am, I admit it, a serious fan of mystery stories and recently I’ve found the books by Stephen Dobyns (also a poet) especially satisfying. I think I mentioned on Goodreads that I’d read Is Fab Bob Dead Yet? and loved it. Now I’ve finished The Burn Palace and again I could not stop reading. The plot…
Karen Douglass, Author 