• “Coming To Life”

    If you are a writer of fiction [and I’ll state here for the record that what I have to say doesn’t really apply to poetry or nonfiction], do your characters come to life on the page for you?  Two of mine did just recently. By “coming to life” I mean more than just seeing them…

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  • Ideas

    A few days ago I watched the second half of a movie from 1974, called “The White Dawn,” about three whalers, two Caucasian and one African American (played by Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett, Jr.) who get trapped in the Arctic, and have to rely on the local Eskimos to survive.  The movie takes place…

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