Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
November 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011
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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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Nov 09, 2011
THE ALLEGORY OF LIFE I’ve written an allegory that’s been rejected by a number of periodicals. Still, I persist in sending it out because I have such faith in the piece. The other day I received another rejection from a newly established publication. This one included comments f
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Nov 08, 2011
SINNER, KNOW THYSELF More than once I have written blog posts in praise of complex sentences. By combining several ideas between a capital and a period, a writer creates relationships among thoughts that wouldn’t be as successful if each was confined to its own subject and verb. Co
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Nov 07, 2011
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN…I CAN’T HELP IT* In the November issue of “Vanity Fair” Robert Loomis, a recently retired book editor with Random House, tells a story about the author Jackie Collins. When asked why she became a writer she retorted the reason was because her husband gav
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Nov 04, 2011
SWAN SONG FOR THE LONE WOLVES In the September issue of “Harper’s” magazine, Garret Keizer, a contributing editor and author writes about his recent one year stint as a teacher at a high school where he’d been an instructor thirty years before. Some things hadn’t changed.
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Nov 03, 2011
OF MAUS AND MEN The Arab Spring released a season of discontent around the globe. People barred from their dreams are beginning to look beyond themselves to explain that failure and are questioning the structure of societies as a whole. As a result, gatekeepers are being challenged
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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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