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Category Archives: emotions
Ten years, one regret
Time goes amazingly fast, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s just me. My first novel, The Sky Always Hears Me and the Hills Don’t Mind, came out in September 2009. My kid was 11. I’d been at my job for 10 … Continue reading
Posted in BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, books, emotions, epic-ness, gratitude, live and learn, Original Fake, privilege, readers, SKY ALWAYS HEARS ME, Uncategorized, WRECK, writing community, writing life, yawp
Tagged BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, decade, joy, WRECK, writing career
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When art creates art, and YOU MEET THE ARTIST (omg!!)
The title doesn’t make it clear, but the book does: the title of WRECK is inspired by “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a song written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot in 1976, about the shipwreck of the … Continue reading
Posted in artists, characters, emotions, epic-ness, grief, music, November, small world, Uncategorized, writing life, yawp
Tagged art, edgy young adult, gordon lightfoot, joy, music, WRECK, writing life
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The . . . disrespectful? . . . launch of WRECK
Launching WRECK has been unlike launching any other book in my career. Its subject matter is hard, and the book isn’t funny (I love writing funny books). But more than anything, its launch feels a way I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS, emotions, grief, readers, WRECK, writing life, yawp
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Sometimes you write the book, sometimes the book writes you.
Writing is a funny thing. You’d think you’d be in control of the process, but sometimes you’re not. Sometimes the characters do or say things you’re not expecting. Sometimes the book goes in a direction you don’t expect (the … Continue reading
Posted in books, emotions, gratitude, Stephen King, WRECK, writing life, yawp
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Mom IRL, kid on the page
***This post may make no sense to anyone but me. And yes, my kid knows I wrote it. He’s letting me post it because, and I quote, “No one reads your blog anyway.” Fair enough. In real life, I’m the … Continue reading
Posted in adolescence, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, emotions, epic fail, funny boys, gratitude, live and learn, love, Original Fake, suckage, teenage boys
Tagged edgy young adult, moms, Original Fake, teenagers, writing life
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Passion: necessary or stupid?
(When I Googled images for this post, all the interwebz coughed up was sexytime stuff. This post is not about sexytime.) So. A person is bopping along, jamming out to life, feeling passionate, doing passionate things, assuming all is well, … Continue reading
Posted in DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS, emotions, hilarity, random, Uncategorized
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For v. With
(I had a hard time coming up with an image for this post. I figured a stretchy, tangled ball of things that could hit you in the face might work.) So I found these comments online about BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. Why … Continue reading
Posted in audience, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, cultural competence, Elvis, emotions, equality, LBGT issues, readers
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