Tag: writing
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25 in ’25: Magic and Meaning in the Productive 60s
I’ve read that a person’s sixties is their most productive decade, and I’m beginning to understand why. That’s supposedly from a New England Journal of Medicine study but I’ve not been able to find the original source, for whatever reason. Still, the productive 60s feels strangely right in a way that it couldn’t have in…
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Alice Munro’s Daughter Hits Close to Home
I could read only so much of the OpEd penned by Alice Munro’s daughter. I might have gotten a hundred words or so in, and I had to stop. It was too close to the bone to continue. The OpEd, entitled “My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro,…
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Novel Tarot: The Hierophant – Revelations Tarot
I love beautiful tarot and oracle cards, so for each chapter of each novel I write, I draw a card from one of my decks and read it intuitively. For this chapter, I drew The Hierophant – Revelations Tarot. See the bottom of the page for information about the novel. The Truth about Liars (Chapter…
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Paula Deen, World War Z Zombies, and Real-Time Communications with Digital Pitchforks
What do Paula Deen and the zombies of the movie WORLD WAR Z have in common? The evolution of the “virus” of communication in real-time. Last weekend, I saw the new Brad Pitt movie WORLD WAR Z. Even before the zombie apocalypse became routine, I was a fan of zombie books and movies, particularly THE…
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Intimate Acts of Writers: Sharing Naked Creativity
Do you remember sharing your first venture into creativity? What that was like? Who shared it with you? Their response to you? Often the first venture into the intimacy of creativity happens as children, and most often with our primitive artwork. It is an encounter with Deity that often is never lost, but as children,…
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Art as an Act of Faith
Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith. Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next…
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How National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Is Like a Diet
My NaNoWriMo project–one that was loosely plotted ten years ago in NYC after a writer’s conference when I was on a roll. In fact, I loosely plotted a whole series with the same characters. Life has intruded, and many other books have been written meanwhile, but it’s time to jump back into the fun of…
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Lining ‘Em Up
My guides had told me that I’d be in superproductive mode for about 6 weeks, and I am. I was told that some would be brand new ideas and others would be pots of gold I’d been sitting on, and they are. I was also told that all my projects would line up easily (their…
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In Retrospect
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. At the end of the calendar year, people tend to look back on the events of the Earth’s previous revolution. It’s a time not just of looking back but of re-assessment, of what’s happened, and of figuring how to incorporate the lessons of the…
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If Time Should Make History of Us
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Life in the Third Degree. I had a message in my inbox the other day from a reader who was offended by something I wrote in one of my blog posts. She felt it wasn’t typical of me and the writing was darker than usual. After some back…
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Why Let Your Last Boyfriend Choose Your Next One?
From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It You wouldn’t let your last boyfriend – the one with all the drama and problems – choose your next boyfriend, would you? Yet that’s what most of us do without realizing it. From the Bookshelf…
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Following Your Bliss…into Debt…and Recovering with a Muse
Photo from Summer 2007 when Spilled Candy Books had 30+ books in print, 15+ authors, before downsizing through a difficult family crisis immediately followed by hurtful allegations that were proven untrue. There’s a saying—a wonderful ideal—that if you follow your bliss, you can make a ton of money. There’s truth in that, but…not always. It…
