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“Every 30 seconds, another person goes into bankruptcy because of health care costs. If that’s not the definition of a crisis that needs to be resolved now, then I don’t know what is.”
Get it fixed America. The more you fail to look after your own citizens, rich or poor, the sadder [...]
As Kindergarten winds down for my six-year-old daughter Madeline, I found myself flipping through her finished schoolwork and was amazed at how far she has progressed from just about nine months ago. Counting to 500, writing complete sentences in cursive, reading at a 2nd Grade level, explaining simple scientific concepts to me as I cook, [...]
This is one of those weeks I read about in the blogs of others who have traveled down the 30-day-novel road. Writer’s block, messed up schedules, uncooperative kids… Hopefully this weekend I can get caught up, because if I don’t it will be very hard to meet my deadline.
I am running a litle behind schedule, but I’m not too worried about it. We had company all last weekend and I’m feeling good about this coming week. The story is taking shape much more fluently than I imagined it would.
As I get deeper and deeper into the planning stages of my 50,000-word novel project, I have been reading a lot about the art of story building. Story building is a storyteller’s ability to capture an incident in time, a singular moment or series of events, and convey the action, emotion, atmosphere and motivation behind [...]