Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011
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MY DINNER WITH MARC The screen play for the 1981 film, “My Dinner with Andre,” written by the principle actors, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, is about a discussion the two men have one evening somewhere in New York where the topics range from experimental theatre to the
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Nov 21, 2011
A THANK YOU TO MY CRITICS I recently finished writing a novelette that I asked 6 friends to critique. I don’t usually bother my friends with my work. I hire an editor. But this wasn’t a hefty piece and I wanted reactions from people who weren’t editors but liked to read. To my s
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Nov 18, 2011
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS—Francine Raften will take you on a witty ride. Enough about literature and life, today we just talk life! I want to tip my hat to Francine Raften who hosts “TELL ME ABOUT IT,” a talk show with a buzz on www.Earth2World.com. It’s so good, it should make
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Nov 17, 2011
DEATH THOU SHALT DIE* I am aware there are a number of books written about the death penalty which have raised questions about whether or not justice is served when the state takes a life. One of the earliest writings to foment debate in my memory was not a book, but the letters o
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Nov 16, 2011
ON A “NEED TO KNOW” BASIS Gossip plays a major role in much of literature. We find it in Dickens, Thackery, Tolstoy and Edith Wharton, Henry James… in fact, few novels exist without it and even fewer biographies. Let’s face it, we humans are curious about each other. (www.12
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Nov 15, 2011
THE ROSE AND THE TEMPLE I wrote on Friday, that a person feeling out of tune with life should consider which world was the source of disappointment. Did it lay with the natural world or with the societies we build? My guess, and not a very bold one, is that our discontent lies with t
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Nov 14, 2011
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE I recently read an article about Maurice Sendak, author of numerous children’s’ books, the most famous of them being Where the Wild Things Are. At 83 he lives alone in Connecticut and walks with a cane which he says he uses “for hitting people” (The
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Nov 11, 2011
THE FEMININE ASPECT A friend recently put a new author’s work in my hand… that is to say new to me though the writer, C. L. Moore was born in 1911 and died a victim of Alzheimer’s in 1987. C.L. stands for Catherine Lucille and she was the first American woman to write in the s
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Nov 10, 2011
TO PUBLISH OR PERISH, THAT IS THE QUESTION I confess I am on the cusp of a question: whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of working with Independent publishers or to take arms against them and become an entrepreneur of my work. It’s a question that som
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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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