Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: Balancing Writing & Life
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By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…
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Wednesday is Release Day!
It has been a while since I released a book, and in that time so much has changed. I actually forgot to prepare. Totally focused on my weekend appearance at a big festival, I forgot the actual date, and only remembered it was before the big event. Then my mom got very ill very quickly…
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Ways to Renew Your Writing Spirit
I am spiritual, although my journey has been interrupted for a few years while I fretted and fumed about the state of the material world, politics, how unloved I felt and what ranking my new novel had on Amazon. These were some of the dark concerns that drew me away from my spiritual practices. Enter…
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Beware of Darkness
A year ago, after a lifetime of being an advocate for gun control, a switch flipped inside my head. I decided I needed to learn how to shoot and own a gun. I discussed it with my husband who agreed to take lessons with me and to purchase a pair of handguns. As an older…
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Digging Into Revision
Back when I missed my deadline last October, I marked off the month of January as what one of my writer friends calls “writing cave” time. No distractions, appointments, or lunches. Just write. Every day. Except Saturday, which is my day with Al. So six days, flat out, all day, until dinner or until I…