Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Writer’s Courage
Jun 29, 2010
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I’m not sure how you manage to come up with these inspired posts and still have time to rewrite your novel. I loved this piece…..pushes all the right buttons! Thank you! L
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Jun 29, 2010
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE I’ve edited 40 pages of my novel so far. The work has been slow, painstaking and I’d love to believe it will be my last rewrite; but I know it isn’t. I’ll rewrite it again before I send it off to my personal editor. She’ll go over it, find errors I
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Jun 28, 2010
L, Thanks for your last post. Sometimes writing these blogs feels like sending notes in a bottle out to sea and then I get an affirmation, like yours, and the effort becomes worthwhile. Caroline
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Jun 28, 2010
A Writer’s Courage Beginning a rewrite on one of my novels is always an act of faith. I imagine, when I’ve laid my first version aside, it has been left in the best possible condition. Yet after a month or two of its lying fallow, I’m aghast to discover the amount of repair requ
Continue Reading →June 25, 2010
Jun 25, 2010
WHERE IS MAHLER’S WIFE? Today the sun is shining. I edited 10 pages of my 4th novel yesterday and hope to do the same today. That is, if there are no interruptions. The writer’s craft may be a lonely one but the world insists upon peeking through the window. Sometimes it says, “
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Jun 24, 2010
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN I read somewhere that while the number of book buyers has remained constant among Baby Boomers, the number among younger adults had dwindled, or should I say, ‘kindled’? Younger readers have taken to electronic books while those over 50 still like the feel of pa
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Jun 23, 2010
BLEEDING WORDS Today I begin to rewrite my 4th novel. Novel number 3 lies like Sleeping Beauty awaiting the appearance of an agent. I am hopeful the 3rd will be published but am uncertain whether it will be through the small or main stream press. Either way, I shall work to give it
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Jun 22, 2010
Music of the Heart Of the people I met on my book tour all but two identified themselves as writers. That degree of interest in the craft would warm the heart of any one-time English teacher. But what was the source of this calling? Some began their practice when they were young; ot
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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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