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Kettles, Bookshelves, and Addictive Literature

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How cool is this kettle? I drink about ten cups of tea a day, so this is one of my most treasured Christmas gifts. The past couple days have constisted of reading, writing, editing, and researching literary agents. Since I’ve come down with the first cold I’ve had in years, all of these activities work [...]

The possibilities are endless…

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One of my favorite people blogged today about her “10 for ’10,” which inspired me to write my own list (in no particular order!)… 1. To be thankful every day for the “little” and “big” things. 2. To continue believing that I can create the life of my dreams and to nurture things like my [...]

Snow Day

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Steve and I trekked through the snowy streets of Hampden on Saturday. It was quite the mini-adventure. Neighbors are much more friendly while shoveling the side walks. I loved knowing that everyone on the street was a local, although I felt bad for the shop owners who probably rely heavily on sales the weekend before [...]

Back in Charm City & Book Two

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My quick trip to Woodstock was energizing and inspiring, as always. I drove up on Wednesday night and headed back to Charm City on Saturday morning. Woodstock’s tourist season is winding down, which for me is a relief. As I packed up the car on Saturday morning to head back to Baltimore, I was thankful [...]

Six Books, Not One Hundred…

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I was getting ahead of myself when I made my list of 100 books…It turns out that Sellers recommends choosing six books for deep study while you’re writing a novel. Five of my six are above. In Chapter after Chapter, Sellers writes about choosing three books on craft and three novels that have greatly inspired [...]

Just Remembered Where All This Started

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My novel is set in Bar Harbor. Some of it takes place in the present, other parts in Eden, which was the actual name of Bar Harbor before 1900. A few moments ago, I was working on the second draft (about to type the 24,222nd word) and the memory of a bookstore in Bar Harbor [...]

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