Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
January 26, 2011
Jan 26, 2011
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THE EVIL MEN DO ISN’T HALF AS MEMORABLE AS THE GOOD On my way to the park this week, I noticed a number of graffiti artists had scrawled their names on telephone poles along the way. My route isn’t on any main thoroughfare so the poles aren’t plastered six inches deep with poste
Continue Reading →January 25, 2011
Jan 25, 2011
THE SHARP EDGE OF DREAMS One of my favorite short stories by Herman Melville is called, “The Piazza.” The plot is about a man who takes up residence in the countryside on an old farm and finding the house has no piazza from which to view his sylvan world, he builds a small
Continue Reading →January 24, 2011
Jan 24, 2011
A BLOG ABOUT BLOGS Today, as I celebrate the writing of my 200th blog, I want to begin by tipping my hat to the human race. If there’s a need, someone will satisfy it. If there is no need someone will create one. Yesterday, while I was doing research on my computer, I came across an
Continue Reading →January 21, 2011
Jan 21, 2011
STEPHEN KING SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MEDICAL WRITER The number of people who earn their livelihoods as writers is staggering if one considers almost every enterprise needs them. There are pamphlet writers, tech writers, writers of instruction manuals, ad writers, medical writers and so on.
Continue Reading →January 20, 2011
Jan 20, 2011
THE WRITER’S HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER I’ve talked about the solitary nature of writing before. One isolates oneself from others in order to create stories one hopes others will read — which means the end game is anything but isolation. I thought about this irony the other da
Continue Reading →January 19, 2011
Jan 19, 2011
WHEN WORDS COLLIDE Several years ago, when I lived for a time in England, I read a book called “The Singer Not the Song” written by Audrey Erkin-Lindop. A film was later made of it which seems to be more famous than the book for there is little written about the author or
Continue Reading →January 18, 2011
Jan 18, 2011
A NEW BREED OF PARASITE Recently, I attended a speech by former book agent who has dissolved her partnership to begin a business that purports to provide a launch pad for writers who self-publish. Amazon already has a vehicle for this but no matter. Under the new rules, the agent serv
Continue Reading →MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Jan 17, 2011
In honor of the memory of a great man and after the wars, the shooting in Arizona, the fiscal debt, the drug wars, the high unemployment, the housing bubble, the divided Congress, I hope each of us will pause to consider our dream for our country and our personal responsbility to ca
Continue Reading →January 14, 2011
Jan 14, 2011
T.S. ELIOT HAD A POINT During one of my lunch hour reads I came across a comment by the actress, Natalie Portman. She was being interviewed for her recent movie, “The Black Swan” in which she plays a dancer who explores the good and evil aspects of her character, hoping to
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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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