Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Amazon’s Big Gamble — Backing Success
Jul 14, 2014
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As my play nears production, my 4th novel goes nowhere while I search for an agent. Getting a big-time agent is at the top of my bucket list — someone out of New York or Chicago or San Francisco. I had a brush with one the other day, but she declined my manuscript because th
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The Price Of Success
Jul 11, 2014
Those of us who stand at the bottom of their climb to literary success may be surprised to learn that established writers continue to face rejection once they’ve made it to the top. Having produced 4 novels, George Orwell found it nearly impossible to publish Animal Farm, for exampl
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New Secrets Of A Long Life
Jul 09, 2014
Last Friday, the nation celebrated its 238th birthday with the usual fanfare. However battered our democracy may seem at times, it’s still a work in progress and looks to the future. Generations upon generations of citizens have carried this political experiment forward, though
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America, Going Against The Grain
Jul 07, 2014
I read what seemed a snide comment in the news the other day. Lec Walesa, former president of Poland, observed that the United States was declining as a world power. Instead of being incensed, I cheered. Since World War II, the United States has been defending liberal order in t
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True Lies In A Brave New World
Jul 03, 2014
Most of my travels on the internet involve research for my writing, my blog in particular. Women’s rights issues interest me, so I often find myself reading material about the Middle East. Knowing about big data as I do, I shouldn’t have been surprised when one day an ad for
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Privacy And The Web
Jul 02, 2014
By now, the NSA has disabused us of the notion that an individual has a right to personal privacy. To be honest, most of us already give it away through blogs like mine or the comments we make on social networks. The Web is so much a part of our lives that we sometimes forget we a
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Tell Them To Go Fly A Kite
Jul 01, 2014
I’ve just finished an article in Harper’s about people who serve as life coaches. Though largely unschooled and uncredentialed, these folks make a living advising others on how to conduct their lives. “Why didn’t I think of that?” I asked myself as I put the magazine aside
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An Idea That’s Come Of Age
Jun 30, 2014
Last week I had coffee with a contemporary. She’s been a journalist for many years and though she’s in her 70s, she keeps current on trends. Even so, she’s uncertain about whether or not she can get comfortable in a world without personal privacy. “I’m not sure I regret
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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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