Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Quality Over Quantity
Feb 05, 2013
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An acquaintance of mine recently congratulated me on my new book, Trompe l’Oeil, my third in five years and sighed that she wished her current biography, which she’s been working on for five years, didn’t require so much research. Her implication was that a fiction writer can kn
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If Stones Could Talk What Would They Say?
Feb 04, 2013
When I was young, I took an interest in people whose lives led them along roads less traveled and yet who were influential. Rasputin was one. He lived in the 19th century as a religious pilgrim and was embraced as a healer by Alexandra, the last Czarina of Russia. Count Calistoga was
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The Folly of Artistic Intention
Feb 01, 2013
In my critical reading the other day, I came across a name I failed to recognize: Roland Barthes. Looking him up, I l discovered he was scholar of language and art who argued in Death of the Author that the moment a work is finished, it should be viewed as an object severed from its c
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A Brief Word on Elephant Art
Jan 31, 2013
“What is a work of art?” seems as profound a question as, “Why are we here?” After centuries of debate, we modern humans are no closer to defining art than was the caveman. The subject just keeps getting more complicated. Recently, a painting created by an elephant sold at auc
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The Oysterville Daybook
Jan 30, 2013
I’ve been following a woman’s blog for a while because it’s well written and gives a glimpse into the rhythms of life in a small community. Sydney Stevens lives in Oysterville, Oregon — a place famous for its oyster beds — and is the author of several histories which
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Grasping the Extraordinary
Jan 29, 2013
I had lunch recently with a woman with whom I’d previously corresponded but never met. She works for the alumnae publication of my college and has always been careful to print notices about each of my books. I decided the time had come to thank her by inviting her to lunch. I’m gl
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What Tennessee Williams Knew
Jan 28, 2013
As a blog writer with a few books behind me, I get numerous questions about how to find an agent or a publisher or how to promote books. As to the latter, I haven’t a clue. Why some writers get attention and others don’t is a mystery to me. But I do know queries about finding a pu
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Jan 26, 2013
Don Merrill did a radio interview on my new book and my thoughst on writing. It’s a half hour long. Know everyone is busy, I’m providing the link here for anyone who might be curious: http://kboo.fm/node/53328 I hope those of you who listen will enjoy it. &nb
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History’s Record Depends on Each of Us
Jan 25, 2013
Todd Purdum in February’s Vanity Fair catalogues the decline of the human condition. He notes, for example, that technology has made privacy obsolete. Gone, too, is the power of nation states, superseded by the multi-national elite — corporations and multibillionaires who play
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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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