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  • Book Review: Eyes on the Horizon, by Carrie Lynn Fazzolari

    I met Carrie Lynn Fazzolari at the Wildacres Writer’s Conference in 2010, and we have been friends on Facebook for most of the time after that.  Her book, Eyes on the Horizon, is Carrie’s first novel, and we both worked on our respective first novels at the conference in between other activities.  So when she…

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  • The Trauma Past

    In an article published in the New Yorker in 2022, Parul Sehgal talked about what he called the “trauma plot,” which uses the traumatic background of a character’s backstory as an integral part of the story.  He didn’t like its use, and I’m not going to comment on that article any further here; rather I…

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