tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65841452024-03-13T05:15:02.870-07:00The Writing Life Toomusings and gatherings Jessica Page MorrellJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comBlogger2012125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-78895234914136460872014-03-17T16:15:00.000-07:002014-03-17T16:49:06.187-07:00All good things must come to an end<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As you might haven noted, not much has been going on here in the past six weeks. </span>I’ve come to the sad
conclusion that I cannot keep blogging at this lovely space that I’ve been
occupying since 2004. The reason: time.Or, more precisely, the lack thereof. I now coordinate <b>3</b> writing conferences,
each which requires its own website, host my site www.jessicamorrell.com, work at my thriving
editing business, care for a four-bedroom home and garden, give time to a relationship and my darling granddaughters, and need more hours to work on my
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For awhile when I was blogging here I started posts by
describing the morning sky. I’m a at-your-desk-first-thing kind of writer and
the sky never failed to inspire me. Problem was, since I lived in Portland I
needed to come up with a lot of variations on the word <i>grey</i>. Chalk. Steel. Brooding.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dusty. Sooty. Lackluster. It was a great lesson in noticing and turned me into even more of a skywatcher than I was before, taught me to stretch for new descriptions. In fact, this blog was a great experience all around. But writing is often about change and with climate
changes we don’t see as many grey mornings. However, a lot of changes have happened in my life in the past 10 years, many which I'm deeply grateful for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I wrote this blog through
heartbreaks and happiness, book deals and pain. I kept blogging after a head
injury that left me in bad shape, struggling to with spelling, memory,
analysis and impulsivity. I wrote about my habit of long walks at dusk; I
interviewed authors; I gathered quotes and snippets of inspiration; and wrote
longer pieces also meant to inspire. </span></div>
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Please follow me over to my <a href="http://www.jessicamorrell.com/">home</a> on the web.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">You'll find
articles, interviews, updates on my schedule and conferences, lovely quotes and insights,<b> </b>and some of my regular features like Quick Take, which I love
writing, by the way. I’m also on facebook and Twitter and around Portland and the Northwest at
writing events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">As always, thank you for reading, thanks for sharing your beautiful lives. Keep writing, keep dreaming, have heart. </span></div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-8518048598638446552014-02-01T11:43:00.001-08:002014-02-01T11:43:21.382-08:00February<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-77377302038680284912014-01-28T12:05:00.001-08:002014-01-28T12:08:26.954-08:00A BIG thanks<br />
A big thanks to everyone who took part in <span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Making it in Changing Times </b></span>on Saturday. This means all the writers who took time for themselves along with Karen Karbo, Sage Cohen, C. Morgan Kennedy and Therese Patrick. Great day, great writers, sun swashbuckling in through the windows. Good coffee and homemade cookies and laughter added to the mix. <br />
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We'll be back next January with more inspiration and innovation.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to
anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you
love. Imagination should be the center of your life</span>.</span></b></h3>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-74704118781488703412014-01-21T10:10:00.002-08:002014-01-21T10:10:12.808-08:00Poetry call for submissionsPlease consider submitting (and please share this widely — the call is open to all poets, not just those in Washington state).
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Help Wanted: The Poetry of Work<br />
Work – or the lack of it – shapes our personalities, our days, and our health. For some, it defines our status. <i>Floating Bridge Review</i> #7 <b>seeks poems concerned with the interplay of labor and identity</b>:
first jobs, lay-offs, job hunting, unemployment, hard labor, happy
hour, housework, sex work, volunteer work, retirement, the multiple and
never-ending labors of parenthood.<br />
<strong>Submission guidelines:</strong><br />
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<li>E-mail up to three previously unpublished poems as a single Microsoft Word document or single PDF file.</li>
<li>Put FBR7 SUBMISSION in the subject line of your e-mail and be sure to include your mailing address.</li>
<li>Send to <a href="mailto:floatingbridgepress@yahoo.com">floatingbridgepress (at) yahoo</a> (dot com). No cover letter needed, but please include a brief bio.</li>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-4381613915166506442014-01-20T10:43:00.000-08:002014-01-20T10:44:50.693-08:00Still time to register for Making it in Changing TimesIt's me again. The Pacific Northwest has been experiencing another streak of sunny, glorious weather. In the past week I could swear there was a hint of spring in the air and my allergy symptoms seem to bear this out. And I'm fascinated how the shade of blue in the winter sky is so much less intense than in the summer sky. Lovely, subtle color. <br />
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The other good news is that there is still time to register for <span style="color: #660000;"><b>Making it in Changing Times</b></span> coming up this Saturday on the <span style="color: #660000;"><b>25th</b></span>. Perfect way to jumpstart your career and writing practice. Jammed with practical information you can immediately put to use. You can find more information<b> <a href="http://makingitinchangingtimes.com/">here </a></b><br />
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Did I mention it's a mere <span style="color: #660000;"><b>$99 </b></span>and that includes a Continental breakfast and lunch?<br />
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<b>Karen Karbo</b> as our keynote, <b>Sage Cohen</b>,<b> Rhonda Hughes </b>of<b> Hawthorne Books (</b>don't you want to know <i>why</i> she started a publishing company?) <b>C. Morgan Kennedy</b> and <b>Therese Patrick</b> of <b>Author Marketing 101</b>. Talk about a brain trust. And I'll be talking about Secrets & Lies and 10 Techniques for Great Beginnings. Actually, I don't think that's quite the name of the workshop, but you get the idea. It's Monday morning. I had a lovely, lovely weekend at the coast and got to speak to the Pacific University MFA students. Then there was the endless sky and briny sea air.....and the salt water taffy and seafood (a bit too much I'm afraid)...well, I'm just not quite back to my usual state....my heart is still near the Pacific. <br />
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Seriously, join us on Saturday. <br />
<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-55075390730873869452014-01-17T10:30:00.002-08:002014-01-17T10:30:31.470-08:002014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="color: #e47911; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt;">Announcing the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award</span><span style="color: #e47911; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.5pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -.35pt;"></span></h1>
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<b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">We'll start accepting entries on February 16, 2014. Visit</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html/ref=amb_link_398308062_1?location=http://www.createspace.com/abna&token=56EFF039858480083E0CF879159776EF63ECD0D4&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713295942&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0in;">CreateSpace</span></a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">to learn more.</span></b><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
Seventh Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest is right around the
corner. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to win a publishing
contract with Amazon Publishing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">One
Grand Prize winner will receive a publishing contract with a $50,000
advance, and four First Prize winners will each receive a publishing
contract with an advance of $15,000. Visit the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359061282_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000634571&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713296522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Prizes</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">page for the full list of prizes and details.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
categories include five popular genres: General Fiction, Romance,
Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror and Young Adult
Fiction. For complete eligibility details, view the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359061282_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000633821&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713296522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Official Contest Rules</span></a>, or read details on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359061282_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000634611&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713296522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">how to enter</span></a>. Visit</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html/ref=amb_link_359061282_4?location=http://www.createspace.com/abna&token=56EFF039858480083E0CF879159776EF63ECD0D4&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713296522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">CreateSpace</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">to learn more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1)
Prepare a strong Pitch. More than a summary, your Pitch should
highlight your concept, protagonist, setting, and writing style—all the
elements that make your story unique.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359061462_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755331&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713298522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">View sample Pitches from past entrants</span></a>.</span></div>
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Select the genre that best fits your book: General Fiction, Romance,
Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, or Young Adult.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">3) Stay within the word count limits—Pitch, up to 300 words; Excerpt, 3,000 to 5,000 words; Manuscript, 50,000 to 125,000 words.</span></div>
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Remove all identifying information from your Pitch, Excerpt, and
Manuscript, including: your name and/or pen name, author bio/resume, and
any awards received for your book.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">5) Submit all materials in English.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">7) Create an account with</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html/ref=amb_link_359061462_3?location=https://www.createspace.com/&token=46E63C9A524E37B536AF7B8C4DA60F34B25B06D1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=02PW3EQ4RBXH93DRY1B8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1713298522&pf_rd_i=332264011"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #996633; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">CreateSpace</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">(if you haven’t already).</span></div>
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<b>"<span style="color: #4c1130;">Painters have paint, choreographers have bodies, sculptors have bronze,
musicians have chords and tunes. Writers have sentences. Not words,
sentences, because a word which isn't in relation to another word can
only be something, not do anything. In a letter
Flaubert once described himself as "Itching with sentences", that is,
with chains of words connected up to make a meaning. Flaubert's itch
wouldn't be cured until he got the sentences - the meanings - out, and
heading towards readers</span>." Emma Darwin</b>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-38990826269541514072014-01-15T13:57:00.000-08:002014-01-20T10:50:52.839-08:00<h4 style="text-align: center;">
The January 2014 issue of <span style="color: #660000;">The Writing Life</span> newsletter was emailed today. If you didn't receive a copy, please contact me. </h4>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-4845228947154374662014-01-14T20:30:00.001-08:002014-01-14T20:30:42.926-08:00I don't linkToo much social media, too little time.<br />
If I haven't responded to your Linked In requests (I get a bunch every day) please don't be offended. Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-27643872867137400242014-01-14T16:01:00.001-08:002014-01-14T20:32:00.728-08:00Still time to Register for Making it in Changing Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1fpuzjp0Mf0/UtXPtcWWSpI/AAAAAAAADFw/_x4ZRXPKmXg/s1600/Karen+Karbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1fpuzjp0Mf0/UtXPtcWWSpI/AAAAAAAADFw/_x4ZRXPKmXg/s200/Karen+Karbo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Date:<span style="color: red;">
</span></span></b><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Saturday, January 25, 2014</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">K</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">eynote speaker <a href="http://www.karenkarbo.com/">Karen Karbo</a> will talk about how blaze
your own trails as you shape a writing career. She should know as the author of
a popular series about how famous women followed their passions and lived
without compromise (Katherine Hepburn, Coco Chanel, Georgia O’Keefe and Juliet
Childs).Her short stories, essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in <cite><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, The
New York Times, Salon.com,</span></cite> and other magazines. She writes a
middle grade series, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship in Fiction and a winner of the General Electric Younger Writer
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Here’s some
wisdom from Karbo: “Nothing I choose to do is dictated by the marketplace,
because unless you’re a brand name author—I’m thinking on the order of Dan
Brown—no editor will automatically green light your proposal for a book about
dogs, sex, and knitting. We are operating in a tough market, but the editors I
deal with are still exacting. They need to know how a book is going to be
executed, what the voice and structure is going to be like, and how my approach
is a different take on the subject. Also, you have to write the thing; if it’s
not something you believe in with all your heart, those hours at the desk can
feel like doing time in a minimum security prison.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Here's a
rundown of events. <a href="http://pathofpossibility.com/">Sage Cohen</a>
begins the day by showing writers how to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fierce on the Page</b>. Then it's <a href="http://jessicamorrell.com/">Jessica
Morrell</a> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">with 10 Tips for Openers
that Captivate</b>, covering those crucial first few paragraphs that make or
break a book's sale. During lunch, it's <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blaze
Your Own Trail and Other Wisdom for Kicking Your Career into High Gear</b> with
Karen Karbo, author of the best-selling <i>Kick Ass</i> women series,
describing how to build and sustain a career writing what only <i>you</i> can
write. Next, Jessica Morrell spills the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Secrets
& Lies</b> behind fascinating characters and storylines. Rhonda Hughes of <a href="http://www.hawthornebooks.com/">Hawthorne Books</a> will talk about how <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Independent Publishing has Never been
Better</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, <a href="http://www.authormarketing101.com/p/about-morgan-and-therese.html">C.
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Hours:
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Registration:
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Date:
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5441 S.E. Belmont</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Cost:
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Registration:
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Space is limited and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>registration closes </span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">January 23</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"> Contact conference coordinator Jessica
Morrell at jessicapage@)spirtone.com. Payments accepted by check or via PayPal.
Mailing address: Jessica Morrell, P.O. Box 820141, Portland, OR 97282-1141.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Website:
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">http://makingitinchangingtimes.com</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></div>
<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-78647528831337632422014-01-07T20:24:00.000-08:002014-01-14T20:33:04.258-08:00Dialoge advice from Elizabeth Bowen<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. Dialogue should be brief.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">2. It should add to the reader’s present knowledge.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">3. It should eliminate the routine exchanges of ordinary conversation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">4. It should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">5. It should keep the story moving forward.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">6. It should be revelatory of the speaker’s character, both directly and indirectly.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">7. It should show the relationships among people. ~ Elizabeth Bowen</span><br />
<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-49451084772494399732014-01-06T12:29:00.000-08:002014-01-06T12:29:02.752-08:00Making it in Changing Times conference, January 25<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #274e13;">A new year</span>, <span style="color: #274e13;">new possibilities</span>. </b></h3>
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<b>For inspiration and practical advice, please join us on <span style="color: #660000;">January 25th</span> for Making it in Changing Times.</b></div>
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<b>Keynote speaker: <span style="color: #660000;">Karen Karbo</span></b></div>
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<b><br />Go to the <a href="http://makingitinchangingtimes.com/">site f</a>or registration details. </b></div>
Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-24215160721225798422014-01-03T08:59:00.001-08:002014-01-03T08:59:35.938-08:00A new year to write....<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Fabulous wishes for <span style="color: #660000;">2014</span></h2>
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Plant your seeds, start that book, clean your office.</h2>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Now</span> is the best time to write. </h2>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Human
life is immense, as Henry James put it, and writing about any aspect of
it is therefore a prospect that requires tremendous specificity. So you
try not to be writing about what A 34 year old woman with a child and
an absent husband might do, but about what THIS 34 year old woman with a
child and an absent husband might do: so you have to make it up about
her, the telling little details that <span class="text_exposed_show">give
forth her specific nature; and making it up will show you things you
didn't know you knew; you'll discover things about this immense life,
and the knowledge will come from an otherness, a sense of something more
in the lines, which is perfectly natural: The "unexplained knowledge,"
as Hemingway says, "which could come from forgotten racial or family
experience," (racial in this sense to mean species-memory). He goes on
to say "Who teaches a homing pigeon to fly as he does?" So, again, and
I'm aware that I repeat myself: just keep it going, let it play out and
try not to overworry the literary stuff, the sideshows. It's a story.
Unfold the trouble and see where it takes you, and then go back and try
to be very, very shrewd about what happened to you in the process--the
lines, sentences, gestures, adumbrations, stops and starts, motions, and
what happened to the people you've made up, and how all of what they
went through felt in the nerve-endings. Say it all as specifically and
clearly as you, with your own temperament, and your own being, can.
That, to me, is writing like your life depends on it--not as some
intellectual gaming (though there are some wonderful examples of just
that in the world's store of fun reading) but as a revelation, tricked
out of the dark by the very indirection that seems to ignore it, of your
real being.</span></span> </span></b><br />
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<b>"<span style="color: #660000;">Art is made by anarchists and sorted by bureaucrats</span>." David Eggers</b></div>
Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-28388113107361229922013-12-05T07:24:00.001-08:002013-12-05T07:48:34.195-08:00Write it DownOne of my Facebook friends is going through a terrible tragedy--her husband has cancer and might not make it. She wants to write, but cannot.<br />
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In our loneliest, darkest times it's often hard to write. But here's a thought: don't write stories or edit, or pressure yourself to work on a project during a crisis. Instead, use your notebook for small jottings and tidbits about what's going on. Capture the simple, but telling items on a bedside table or the strange cloud formation. I suggested she might want to write down her husband's words or her dreams during this bleak time. Raw emotions and terrible sadness can be captured to be used later. I know this sounds rather mercenary, but it's worthwhile and it just might soothe.<br />
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For an example of capturing pain and transforming it into gold you might want to read <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780156033237"><i><b>A Three Dog Life</b></i> </a>by Abigail Thomas. No, it's not a dog story. It's a memoir about surviving grief and loss.<br />
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<i>Keep writing</i>, <i>keep dreaming</i>, <i>have heart</i>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-29989300955064232252013-12-03T18:25:00.000-08:002013-12-04T09:00:01.555-08:00Quick Take: Say no<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If I've said this once, I've said it 1,000 times. Yes, I'm echoing my mother. Plot events shriek a resounding "NO" to your protagonist. Doors don't open; they slam shut. Clues don't magically appear; they disappear. True love doesn't happen overnight; it must first fall apart.<br />
<b>Fictional plots punish the protagonist, over and over.</b> Take that one to the bank. <br />
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And while we're on the subject please skip eavesdropping of any kind. <br />
Overheard conversations were okay in the days of Nancy Drew, but these days readers are much more sophisticated. Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-22010939807682477532013-12-03T09:00:00.001-08:002013-12-03T09:02:28.004-08:00Making it in Changing Times Conference<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-52715914112600306972013-12-02T21:15:00.003-08:002013-12-02T21:15:43.492-08:00How do you describe where you're from? It's a great writing practice.Searching for the past, the haunts, the heart, the influences.<br />
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<i><b>That's my middle-west--not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede
towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street
lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly
wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a
little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent
from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are
still called through decades by a family's name. I see now that this has
been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan
and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in
common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. </b></i><br />
<b>F. Scott Fitzgerald,</b><i><b> The Great Gatsby </b></i><br />
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-15654695263759959152013-11-26T09:24:00.000-08:002013-11-26T09:25:55.019-08:00NaNoWriMo Tip # 14 Pull out the stops for the Dark Night of the Soul<b>Act 2</b> ends with the<span style="color: #134f5c;"> </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Dark Night of the Soul</span>. </b><br />
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Dark minded creature that I am, it's often my favorite part of the film or novel. In great television series you'll find them too. <br />
It's the moment in the story where your protagonist, scarred and battered, needs to hit his or her emotional bottom. And the reader/viewer must too. <br />
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This is an all-out, deeply haunting crisis. ALL IS LOST, or appears to be. Your protagonist is facing his deepest fear. It is almost always a terrible and difficult test; one which prepares the protagonist for the final confrontation with the antagonist in the climax. Despair. Hoplessness. Doubt. Emotional gripping. It appears that the protagonist has lost everything or wonders if all has been worth it. This test brings understanding and often and epiphany. It makes way for the transformation that follows. <br />
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<b>Think:</b><br />
Dorothy locked in the witch's tower with that cruel hourglass running out.<br />
In the marvelous film the <i>Station Agent</i> Finn is in the bar getting stinking drunk. Walks home and passes out on the railroad tracks. <br />
Rose trying to free Jack as the Titanic sinks into the icy north Atlantic amid despair, chaos and panic.<br />
In <i>Toy Story </i>Woody and Buzz fall into the hands of the sadistic Sid and seems like they'll never be reunited with Andy and moving day looms.... <br />
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Now you're at the climax of Act 2. Think of this segment of your story and as the curtain dropping. Setting us up for the finale.<br />
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It's <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>November 26.</b></span>...just a few more days o f writing, and lot of Thanksgiving calories ahead of you....keep writing, keep trying...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“<i>My entertainment credo has not changed a
whit. Strong combat and soft satire are in our story cores. Virtue
triumphs over wickedness in our fables. Tyrannical bullies are routed or
conquered by our good little people, human or animal. Basic morality is
always deeply implicit in our screen legends. But they are never sappy
or namby-pamby. And they never prate or preach. All are pitched toward
the happy and satisfactory ending. There is no cynicism in me and there
is none allowed in our work</i>.” ~ Walt Disney.</span></b></span>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05586767748367692023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584145.post-44756151231726784572013-11-25T08:53:00.000-08:002013-11-25T08:54:48.583-08:00NaNoWriMo Tip # 13 Bring Act 2 to a Boil <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the Act 1 you've introduced two big changes into the protagonist's life. These changes require the character to enter into the conflict, cross a threshold into the story. Some parts of the story such as the subplots might be simmering,
but<b> <span style="color: #134f5c;">by the middle the plot should be cooking at a full boil. </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Characters are best revealed by making decisions and
discoveries and revealing secrets. Middles are where your character’s values
are also revealed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Middle chapters show the characters <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>becoming more
emotional, the struggle more persona</b><b>l. </b></span>This forces the protagonist to confront inner struggles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Act 2 is the best place to weave in backstory that is pertinent
to the plot. Generally back story is
best use to explain why characters do what they do. Readers only need to
know about the portions of your character’s history that are entwined with his
or her motivation and core personality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I like to think of Act 2 as a long, wobbly bridge--the kind that spans an impossibly deep cavern with raging waters below. In Act 2 some of the characters don't make it across the bridge. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KDoE_x0jg5Y/UpOAJAcaiBI/AAAAAAAADDA/ar_xr4yumPc/s1600/rope+bridge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KDoE_x0jg5Y/UpOAJAcaiBI/AAAAAAAADDA/ar_xr4yumPc/s320/rope+bridge.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the second half of Act 2 things need to <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>close in on your protagonist</b></span>, time might be running out/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other plotting tips as Act 2 boils away: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is usually a <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">series of tests. During these tests the protagonist often makes mistakes.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The protagonist is <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>bonding with his/her allies</b></span> and also<span style="color: #134f5c;"><b> losing allies.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Things are starting to <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">spiral out of control. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Things are<b> <span style="color: #134f5c;">growing darker and darker.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Often the protagonist crosses a moral line.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Are we having fun yet? </span></b><span style="color: #134f5c;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> “<i><span style="color: #0c343d;">As
the writing progresses, the novelist begins to uncover connections and
relationships that she had not realized in her outline or planning. The themes,
major and minor, begin to appear in different forms. The writer must learn to
capitalize on these from the Prince of Serendip, for through them she will
discover what her novel is about</span></i>.” Oakley Hall </b></span></span></div>
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