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Getting to spend my days doing what I love, which is working with language and story.
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The Bright Forever
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2005
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River of Heaven
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2008
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Break the Skin
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2011
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Late One Night: A Novel
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2016
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From Our House
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2000
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Quakertown
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2001
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Yours, Jean
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2020
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Such a Life
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2012
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The Mutual UFO Network
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The Least You Need to Know: Stories
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Five Ways We Keep Ourselves from Writing
The time in the semester has come when I’m overwhelmed with reading student work. That’s what I’ve been doing on this rainy day, and now I’m worn out, so I’m going to repost this section from my craft book, Telling Stories:
I was thinking recently of all the ways that we sometimes keep ourselves from writing. Here are but a few:
We wait for inspiration to strike: Sometimes, particularly in the Read more of this blog post »
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“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
“You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you’re trapped in a moment you’ll never be able to change.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
“When someone you love disappears, it's like the light goes dim, and you're in the shadows. You try to do what people tell you: put one foot in front of the other; keep looking up; give yourself over to the seconds and minutes and hours. But always there's taht glimmer of light-that way of living you once knew-sort of faded and smoky like the crescent moon on a winter's night when the air is full of ice and clouds, but still there, hanging just over your head. You think it's not far. Your think at any moment you can reach out and grab it.”
― The Bright Forever
― The Bright Forever
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