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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (1997, 224 pages) Pearl Cleage packed her debut novel with fierce love for community, loyalty, purposeful living, intentional mentoring, self-care, and a whole lot of Black Girl Magic before we’d given … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult Fiction, book review, HIV, novel, On My Bookshelf, oprah book club, Pearl Cleage, romance, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary day
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The Writer’s Focus
Once you have your framework in place, you’ll need to be ruthless. Everything in a story must work to tell the tale. Think of your novel like a television news story. If the story is about a murder, you’ll usually … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, creativity, descriptive writing, insight, inspiration, introduction, mindfulness, novel, self publishing, simplicity, story teller, television, writer
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The Novel
To abandon the novel- would be a surrender. It would allow my sorrow to become curtains on all the windows, locks on all the doors Yet the leaves would still fall outside, and the snow. In the coming spring, new … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, creativity, descriptive writing, insight, inspiration, introduction, mindfulness, mother nature, novel, publishing, simplicity, surrender, writer, Yiyun Li
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Real Life of an MSW 