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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person you meet has a story.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.
- Might
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out of touch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the gym, in part because I'm not trying to solve them at that precise moment.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside is that you can't read too much, and even 'junk' reading can be constructive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had a child. A relative asked me out to lunch and told me I was too old for motherhood.
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- Nov 07, 2020