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Feb.03.2010
This is the Stained Glass Mountain, one of the wild places my central character will escape to as the story progresses. If another story already did something similar, please let me know.
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Feb.03.2010
Here's another old painting I'm using as inspiration. Screaming Tree is from way back in my freshman year in college, with some details I added later on but can't remember when. This and the other painting I posted today show some of the look I want for a story of a misfit child rejected by both...
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Feb.03.2010
I'm in the early stages of creating a children's book called I Don't Fit. I've dragged out some of my old paintings to inspire me and to use as backgrounds for some of the images. Here's a painting from 2002: Snaking Past Tree Anemones:
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Jan.22.2010
Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" showed me that a writer can create a complete, vivid world in a very few deceptively simple words. Before I read her brilliant short story, I thought great literature had to last for days and be inpenetrable. But in only three pages, "Girl"...
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About Mike
I grew up in the country in Arkansas, spent 12 years in Philly, was widowed at 30, taught five years in a rough inner city high school in Philly, then moved to Maine in 2007 to be with my hubby. At this rate, we'll be living at the North Pole when we're 60....
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