Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
From the Sock Drawer to Immortality
Dec 28, 2012
0 Comment
The Brautigan Library in Vancouver, Washington is the home of failed manuscripts. Here rejection doesn’t exist and, it would follow, it is the place where a writer needs no talent to be part of the literary community. Such an institution is necessary, according to its current cura
Continue Reading →Sage Advice of the Caterpillar
Dec 26, 2012
As the end of the year rolls to a close, it’s time to think about New Year’s resolutions. Mine will be to take the advice of the Caterpillar from The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland. In my blogs I will endeavor to I say what I mean and to mean what I say. Too often in our haste,
Continue Reading →
Language — The Ornament of Thought
Dec 24, 2012
On the day before Christmas, I’m thinking about the one gift that keeps giving: language. What fascinates me is the way we borrow words from other cultures to embellish our own. My latest novel, Trompe l’Oeil has a French title. Its meaning is less well known than words like rouge
Continue Reading →
A Word About McCall Smith’s African Cozies
Dec 21, 2012
Sometimes luck happens. I found a used edition of Alexander McCall Smith 11th novel, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, which I’ve been wanting to read. It’s part of his series about a lady detective who resides in Botswana and opens the first agency in her small country. As I l
Continue Reading →
Words to Confound
Dec 20, 2012
In the December issue of More Magazine, Jan Sheehan observes that in some ways we get better as we grow older. One consolation she offers is that while we may have more trouble retrieving words, we know more of them. (“8 Ways Your Body Gets Better with Age,” by Jan Sheehan , More,
Continue Reading →
Ah Yes, I Remember Tom Sawyer Well
Dec 19, 2012
Mark Twain said of Rudyard Kipling, whom he admired, “I am not acquainted with my own books, but I know Kipling’s books.” (Hello Goodbye Hello, by Craig Brown, excerpted in The Week, 11/30/12 pg. 41). His remark surprised me the moment I read it. Surely this was excessive praise
Continue Reading →
A Time When Love Won’t be Enough
Dec 18, 2012
During one of my coffees with a friend, I admitted I was thinking of going back to writing short stories rather than novels as the latter are time consuming and cost more to promote than what I earn in sales. My friend smiled sympathetically. Then she told me about a famous rock perfo
Continue Reading →
A Writer’s Doubts
Dec 17, 2012
A little heralded event happened recently. Philip Roth, author of The Human Stain and Portnoy’s Complaint — and one who has despaired for the direction literature — has decided to stop writing. His last novel, Nemesis was published in 2010 and at 78, he feels he has noth
Continue Reading →
Fairy Tales are for Grown-ups
Dec 14, 2012
A few years back, I wrote a fairy tale, Grimahlka, the story of a witch who adopts a human baby. The tale has a medieval, eastern European flavor and takes place in dark woods where, as it does in much of literature, transformations occur. The work was published in Tales of the Talism
Continue Reading →
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
To access and subscribe to my videos on YouTube, Click Here and click the Subscribe button.