tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78013219743336236412024-03-18T06:59:44.131-07:00A Writer's MomentA look at writing and writers who inspire us.A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.comBlogger4392125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-69363512398870235932024-03-18T06:58:00.001-07:002024-03-18T06:58:47.102-07:00A Writer's Moment: "Everything's a potential scene; everyone a charac...<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/everythings-potential-scene-everyone.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: "Everything's a potential scene; everyone a charac...</a>: “I don't e njoy doing a lot of research, preferring as a rule, to ‘make up my facts.’ That's why I write fiction. I firmly bel...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-89076601378436633822024-03-18T06:58:00.000-07:002024-03-18T06:58:28.174-07:00"Everything's a potential scene; everyone a character'<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
don't</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
e</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">njoy doing a lot
of research, preferring as a rule, to ‘make up my facts.’ That's why I write
fiction. I firmly believe that if you want facts, you read non-fiction; you
read fiction to discover the truth.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Joy Fielding</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fielding, born in Toronto, Canada on
this date in 1945, said she knew early in her life that she wanted to be a writer,
and to date she’s followed through big time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is the author of 29 novels and 1 novella – many of them bestsellers –
including the extraordinarily successful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">See
Jane Run</i> and her 2022 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Housekeeper</i>.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fielding said she loves writing
because she feels like she’s in complete control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, she looks upon everything around her as
a potential scene and everyone as a potential character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While snippets of her ideas come from
magazine and newspaper articles, more often they are from things that happen to
herself or someone she knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I use whatever I can and nothing is sacred.
Of course, nothing is exactly the way it is in real life. A writer borrows a
bit from here, there and everywhere, and adapts it to her own purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(But) I find that the more of me I include,
the more successful the book, the more readers can identify with.”</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-75462411244445478032024-03-16T06:49:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:49:55.713-07:00A Writer's Moment: 'Poetry is a call to action'<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/poetry-is-call-to-action.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'Poetry is a call to action'</a>: “Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.”...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-26264186596124347582024-03-16T06:44:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:49:19.138-07:00'Poetry is a call to action'<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Poetry
can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our
social and political lives.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Juan Felipe Herrera<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The author of two dozen books,
Herrera (born in 1948) is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher and activist whose
experiences as the child of migrant farmers has shaped much of his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His children's book <i>Calling the Doves</i>
won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award and his poetry book <i>Half the World in
Light</i> won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2023 he was awarded The Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Poetry is a call to action, and it
also is action,” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Saturday’s Poem, here is Herrera’s,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let Me Tell You What A Poem
Brings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before you go further,<br />
let me tell you what a poem brings,<br />
first, you must know the secret, there is no poem<br />
to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries,<br />
yes, it is that easy, a poem, imagine me telling you this,<br />
instead of going day by day against the razors, well,<br />
the judgments, all the tick-tock bronze, a leather jacket<br />
sizing you up, the fashion mall, for example, from<br />
the outside you think you are being entertained,<br />
when you enter, things change, you get caught by surprise,<br />
your mouth goes sour, you get thirsty, your legs grow cold<br />
standing still in the middle of a storm, a poem, of course,<br />
is always open for business too, except, as you can see,<br />
it isn't exactly business that pulls your spirit into<br />
the alarming waters, there you can bathe, you can play,<br />
you can even join in on the gossip—the mist, that is,<br />
the mist becomes central to your existence. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-66915894203795219152024-03-15T06:48:00.001-07:002024-03-15T06:48:28.029-07:00A Writer's Moment: 'Living in a story'<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/living-in-story.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'Living in a story'</a>: “I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.”...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-65601075997093681682024-03-15T06:48:00.000-07:002024-03-15T06:48:00.227-07:00'Living in a story'<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to
believe that we're living in a story.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naomi Shihab Nye</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born in 1952, Nye is a
self-designated "wandering poet," traveling the world to lead writing
workshops and conduct inspirational talks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She lives in San Antonio – where she earned a degree in English
Literature at Trinity University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her writing career, which includes
contributing to or publishing some 30 books of poetry, several novels, and many
stories for kids and young adults, began as a child growing up in St. Louis, where
her first poem was published at age 7. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Among Nye’s most notable works is
the YA novel<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Habibi</i>, the story of a
14-year-old girl and her Arab father and American mother who move from a home
in St. Louis to live in Palestine, mirroring a time in her own life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The semi-autobiographical piece, the title
of which means “beloved,” addresses a wide range of themes including change,
family values, war, peace and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Winner of multiple awards, the book was named by the American Library
Association as one of the best books for Young Adults written in the 20<sup>th</sup>
Century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Poetry calls us to pause,” Nye
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There is so much we overlook,
while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.”</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-6467103242916902732024-03-14T07:41:00.000-07:002024-03-14T07:41:20.408-07:00A Writer's Moment: 'Imagination' equals the root of intelligence<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/imagination-equals-root-of-intelligence.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'Imagination' equals the root of intelligence</a>: “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” – Albert Einstein Today is a day Einstein -- born on this date i...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-3069979167005510292024-03-14T07:38:00.000-07:002024-03-14T07:38:12.243-07:00'Imagination' equals the root of intelligence<p> <br />
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<span class="bqquotelink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The true sign of intelligence is
not knowledge, but imagination.”</span></i></span><span class="bqquotelink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
– Albert Einstein </span></span></div>
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<span class="bqquotelink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today
is a day Einstein -- born on this date in 1879 -- would have enjoyed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span>It’s National
Pi Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a mathematical constant,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one of the first ever discovered and used extensively in Einstein's calculations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pi, which is
the ratio of the distance around a circle to the circle’s diameter, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>produces a number that is
always the same. The number starts 3.141592653...
and continues without end. But it's quite helpful in solving problems or making discoveries, something
Einstein was pretty good at.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Celebrating National Pi Day on 3-14
makes sense because the first three numbers are, of course, 3-14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><p> <br /></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Einstein probably would have had as much fun as anyone celebrating National Pi Day on March 14th because he had a great sense of humor to go along with his
brainy abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="bqquotelink"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He once noted that people should never kiss and drive at the same time . . . because then you aren't giving the
kiss the proper attention it deserves.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He also said – probably with a bit
too much modesty – that he didn’t keep a notebook of his great ideas
because “I’ve only ever had one."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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/><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow," he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "</span>The important thing is not to stop questioning.” </span><span class="bqquotelink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span> And maybe have a slice of pie with that.</div>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-24063774231941070592024-03-13T06:17:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:17:22.409-07:00A Writer's Moment: That nagging 'What If?' factor<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/that-nagging-what-if-factor.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: That nagging 'What If?' factor</a>: “A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.”...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-78820112715248554882024-03-13T06:14:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:15:56.292-07:00That nagging 'What If?' factor<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A strong emotion, especially if
experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it
occurred.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Algernon Blackwood</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
in England on this date in 1869, Blackwood was a short story writer and
novelist and one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history
of the genre. He was also a journalist and narrator in both radio and
the early years of television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
gifted storyteller, even in childhood, he said he always amazed friends and
neighbors with his ability to spin yarns about the supernatural and so thought
it was his calling to continue doing so as an adult. Ultimately, he
wrote some 3 dozen original short story collections, 14 novels, several
children's books, and a number of plays before his death in 1951.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most
of Blackwood’s stories were written to elicit a sense of “awe” or carry through
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What if?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>factor, which made them perfect for such
broadcast shows as “Suspense” and “Night Gallery.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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said his secret to success in the genre was to leave a sort-of nagging sense in
the reader that something was yet to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Those little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.”</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-22166847369470787292024-03-12T06:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:30:11.675-07:00A Writer's Moment: 'The responsibility to reach out'<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-responsibility-to-reach-out.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'The responsibility to reach out'</a>: “I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.” – James Taylor Born on M...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-66927067289851878052024-03-12T06:29:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:29:48.414-07:00'The responsibility to reach out'<p> <br />
</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I believe musicians have a duty, a
responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– James
Taylor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born on March 12, 1948 Taylor is a writer, singer, poet, performer and member of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. He also has written several bestselling books, including <i>Life </i>and <i>Break Shot</i>. His lyrical creations -- writing both words and music for most of his own songs -- have resulted in over 100 million record sales. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><div style="line-height: 200%;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It is a process of discovery,” he
said of his creative process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s being quiet enough and
undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the words can begin to sort of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taylor’s song (and lyric) writing include the Grammy-winning “Fire and Rain,” his first number one hit, the
amazing “You’ve Got a Friend,” and the joyful “Your Smiling Face,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for
other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience,” he said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And that's what happens with me. I write
things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it becomes a shared
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<div style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-49820556365941460552024-03-11T06:52:00.000-07:002024-03-11T06:52:05.864-07:00A Writer's Moment: 'Ending where I need to be'<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/ending-where-i-need-to-be.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'Ending where I need to be'</a>: “There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, today I'm going to do something of hig...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-44931445314172819832024-03-11T06:51:00.000-07:002024-03-11T06:51:00.175-07:00'Ending where I need to be'<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There's
nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay,
today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm going to do something of high
artistic worth.’”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Douglas Adams</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born on this date in 1952, Adams is
perhaps best known as the author of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>,
which originated as a BBC radio comedy before being turned into a series of
books that sold more than 15 million copies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately it also generated a television
series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and a feature film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adams, who died of a heart attack at
age 49, was known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation; his
love of fast cars, cameras, and technological innovation; and, of course, his
prowess as a writer, first begun in elementary school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hitchhiker’s
Guide</i> has been enshrined in The UK Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often called "a true Renaissance man," he also was an
actor, singer, producer, computer game developer, and stand-up comic. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I seldom end up where I want to go,” he once said
about his eclectic career, “but I almost always end up where I need to be.”</span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Like
a piece of ice on a hot stove a poem must ride on its own melting ... Read it a
hundred times, it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its
fragrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can never lose its sense
of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.” </span></i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Robert Frost</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This morning, unlike the bird that bothers Frost
in the poem below, a bird on our roof was not creating music, but noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a Flicker that decided to “mark” its
territory – or maybe it was attract a mate – by drumming with its beak on one
of our vent pipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But after giving it further thought, I decided
a bird on the roof is still better than no bird at all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Saturday’s Poem, here is Frost’s,</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Minor Bird </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have wished a bird would fly away,<br />
And not sing by my house all day;<br />
<br />
Have clapped my hands at him from the door<br />
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.<br />
<br />
The fault must partly have been in me.<br />
The bird was not to blame for his key.<br />
<br />
And of course there must be something wrong<br />
In wanting to silence any song. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 49.5pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Create
a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate
that vision into a reality.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Warren Bennis<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
on this date in 1925, Bennis was a scholar, organizational consultant and
prolific author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership
Studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was Founding Chairman of The
Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: right 6.0in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: right 6.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
leader and innovator almost from his earliest days, Bennis grew up in the New
York-New Jersey area, was a standout scholar and athlete, and at age 18 became
one of the U.S. Army’s youngest World War II officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winner of the Bronze Star (for bravery) and
Purple Heart, he studied at Ohio’s Antioch College after the war, then went on
to earn a Ph.D. at MIT.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpiY2ryOD8HuWjc3lvqgdAtTJ1qjvv9lv7AUccJZ1cszeG0gSmbxxucX0zhpU32RPOGTcvoX2xk4lZjA80TRow4-lmW7-0kIcE6Jdrqhg1CTiTAhG4Uv_bd5KQrcP64xQ3d_HUMcJ_2IPj/s1600/is_020.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpiY2ryOD8HuWjc3lvqgdAtTJ1qjvv9lv7AUccJZ1cszeG0gSmbxxucX0zhpU32RPOGTcvoX2xk4lZjA80TRow4-lmW7-0kIcE6Jdrqhg1CTiTAhG4Uv_bd5KQrcP64xQ3d_HUMcJ_2IPj/s400/is_020.jpg" /></a> His
writing career began in the early 1970s after he was named President of the
University of Cincinnati.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there he
authored two books on leadership: <i>The Leaning Ivory Tower</i> and <i>The
Unconscious Conspiracy: Why Leaders Can’t Lead</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bennis,
who died in 2014, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">went to USC in 1979 where he
wrote m</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ost of his 27 books,
including the bestselling <i>Leaders</i> and <i>On Becoming A Leader</i>, both
translated into 21 languages.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His book<i>, </i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">An Invented Life</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: right 6.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: right 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There are two ways of being
creative,” Bennis once said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“One can sing and dance. Or one can create an
environment in which singers and dancers flourish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaders must encourage their organizations to
dance to forms of music yet to be heard.” </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span></div>A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-52051053086334965742024-03-07T05:48:00.001-08:002024-03-07T05:48:27.893-08:00A Writer's Moment: 'The heart and core of ages past'<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-heart-and-core-of-ages-past.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: 'The heart and core of ages past'</a>: “For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, th...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-85216332181729668252024-03-07T05:48:00.000-08:002024-03-07T05:48:00.788-08:00'The heart and core of ages past'<p> </p><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For
books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages
past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and
quintessence of their lives.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – Gene Fowler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fowler, a longtime journalist, screenwriter and novelist, was born in
Colorado on this date in 1890.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During
his lifetime (he died in 1960) he wrote 20 books, several plays and a couple
dozen movie scripts while simultaneously serving as syndication manager for
King Features – a major newspaper service.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I first learned about Fowler when
researching my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And The Wind
Whispered</i> because of his interviews and connections with Buffalo Bill Cody,
a key character in the book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fowler also
was close friends with actors John Barrymore and W.C. Fields and did one of the
best books ever written about Jimmy Durante, simply called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schnozzola</i>.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"> Fowler's <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">philosophy for success, he said,
was simple:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Just believe in yourself
and your abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is always easier to
believe than to doubt.”</span></div>
A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-11503577369185795512024-03-06T06:50:00.001-08:002024-03-06T06:51:34.888-08:00A Writer's Moment: Avoiding temptation<a href="https://writersmoment.blogspot.com/2024/03/avoiding-temptation.html?spref=bl">A Writer's Moment: Avoiding temptation</a>: “A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back i...A Writer's Moment by Dan Jorgensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042453986336723126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801321974333623641.post-42875759140174404402024-03-06T06:50:00.000-08:002024-03-06T06:50:22.011-08:00Avoiding temptation<p> </p><div style="line-height: 200%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“A good
many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed
envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a
temptation to the editor.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ring
Lardner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ve
always liked Ring Lardner, an old-time
sportswriter from the early part of the last century who wrote with
satirical humor and the kind of description that always put you on
the field, on the court, in the boat, or in the locker room with
athletes
about whom he was writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald and admired by Ernest Hemingway, he also started the column “In The Wake of the News” for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago Tribune</i> and did it so well that it became an established
part of that newspaper’s vernacular even to this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I dug out his quote of his after finding an old letter I had
received from one of my publishers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was in one of the Publisher’s envelopes (always a good sign for a fledgling
writer). Included with their letter of interest in my manuscript was a
folded up self-addressed, stamped envelope I had sent to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, like Lardner implies, it was one of
those full-size 9x12 models, big enough to hold the entire manuscript (which I
had foolishly sent thinking, “Gee, how could they possibly not want my
book?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, there was this telltale
envelope showing that I really didn’t have all that much confidence that they
were going to keep it.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">So, a quick piece of advice to aspiring writers,
whether you’re sending it by old-fashioned mail or electronically. Always send just
a “sample” of your work and not the whole piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cover it with a short, concise, descriptive
introductory letter, telling the editors about what you’ve written, why you’ll
be a good “fit” for them, and how much you’re looking forward to working as
hard as you can to make them glad that they send you back a positive reply – in
their envelope, and not yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Half
the battle is getting them to read more of your work in the first place
and nothing does that better than how you introduce yourself to them. </span></div>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to
put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of
madness.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - Rick Bass</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bass, who was born in Texas in March
of 1958, started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a geologist
in the petroleum and gas industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually
he left that field and gravitated toward environmental activism. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Among his more than two dozen books
are the award-winning <i>Where the Sea Used to Be</i>; his short story
collection <i>The Lives of Rocks</i>; and his autobiographical <i>Why I Came
West</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also a noted essayist, his
most recent book is <i>With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays,
1995-2023</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to writing,
he is a noted public speaker, appears often on television, and is a frequent
college lecturer.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Bass has authored an equal
number of nonfiction and fiction works, he said approaching the latter genre’
is a more delicate proposition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I think a novelist must be more
tender with living or 'real' people,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms
before you every day, in every sentence.”</span></p>
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