Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
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Nov 05, 2014
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I have a friend who in his youth belonged to a comedy improvisational group. Their performance involved asking the audience to supply plots or characters which the actors would turn into extemporaneous skits. What resulted always ranked somewhere on a scale between funny to hilari
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Much Ado About Nothing
Nov 04, 2014
Cries of alarm, protest and horror rattled New York elites recently when Aby Rosen, the man who owns the Seagram’s building, wanted to remove a wall hanging, originally a ballet theater backdrop, purportedly painted by Pablo Picasso. The performance ended, the hanging landed as a
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Creativity And The Patch
Nov 03, 2014
Whenever my co-host, Susan Stoner, and I sit down to discuss the venue for another of our YouTube book review series Just Read It, the air crackles with good vibes. Collaboration is something novelists seldom get to experience and while I enjoy the contemplative times of writing a
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A Tale For Halloween
Oct 31, 2014
Tonight is Halloween so it’s time for a scary tale. But this one isn’t about ghosts and goblins. It’s a tale far more horrible. It’s about a feminine myth that has kept women from reaching their full potential. We start with Hysteria, the Greek word for muse. Literal
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Illusion Of A Finite Boundary
Oct 30, 2014
Haruki Murakami’s new book, Colorless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage, is receiving critical acclaim, most recently from Rivka Galchen. (“The Monkey did it,” By Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine, October 2014, pgs. 86-89.) I haven’t read Murakami’s newest work yet,
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Anatomy Of A Play — Part VII
Oct 29, 2014
After the play reading with live actors, I met the director a couple of weeks later. She had organized her notes from that evening and we began reviewing the play, line by line, scene by scene. She added comments of her own, indicating places where the language was too stilted mak
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The Operative Words Of Operatives
Oct 28, 2014
Who knew? Among the government’s millions of documents, the CIA has a style guide to help agents write better reports. Apparently the MLA Style Sheet isn’t good enough for the spooks, so it’s invented its own. I’m not surprised. They’ve bent the language before (Bl
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Something’s In The Water
Oct 27, 2014
When I was a child and did something my father thought was stupid, he’d shake his head and say, “Must be something in the water.” He said it countless times before I was old enough to drink wine instead of water so his words never left me. I’m inclined to revive them again a
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Meditation And Other Empty Thoughts
Oct 24, 2014
My life is pretty hectic at the moment. Besides caring for my 98 year-old mom, there’s my play to worry about and preparations for my move to a retirement center. When I saw my calendar for the upcoming week, I threw up my hands. “Oh no. Not another lunch, coffee, movie!
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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