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Writing a Memoir Partly About a Person I Never Met, Part I

Writing a Memoir Partly About a Person I Never Met, Part I

by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading | 2 comments

What happens to us in our youth impacts the rest of our lives. Sorting that out later in life sets us on a hero’s journey. *** I found the journals while cleaning closets during spring break. Six 9-by-6-inch books written by my new husband’s daughter, who had taken...
Where Are You? A History Lesson on Women Writers, Women’s Books

Where Are You? A History Lesson on Women Writers, Women’s Books

by Carole Duff | Sep 2, 2024 | Faith | 4 comments

A lesson from personal history today, this essay first published in August 20th’s Women Writers, Women’s Books, link here: http://booksbywomen.org/where-are-you-by-carole-duff/ Housebound on a rainy day, my sisters and I play hide and seek. While one sister covers her...
Turning Defeat into Opportunity: my road to publication

Turning Defeat into Opportunity: my road to publication

by Carole Duff | Aug 19, 2024 | Writing and Reading | 4 comments

What looks like defeat could be opportunity. This essay, “The Road to Publication for a Writer of a Certain Age,” was published on Brevity Blog. “Memoir is hard to sell,” the webinar presenter said. “The market is glutted. Does anyone want to read another story about...
Tolerate with humility, gentleness, patience, love, perseverance

Tolerate with humility, gentleness, patience, love, perseverance

by Carole Duff | Aug 5, 2024 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading | 6 comments

Though I wasn’t going to tolerate my step back from last weekend, I wasn’t entirely sure how to turn it into two steps forward. Until I read Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 4:1-3 (NASV 1995) Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner...
We can rewind but cannot change until we learn the lessons.

We can rewind but cannot change until we learn the lessons.

by Carole Duff | Jul 29, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 5 comments

Part of me wished I could rewind and take back what I said to Keith on Friday night after happy hour. “I’m done with your criticism,” I said screamed and side-ways sliced the air with my hand. I’d mismanaged the dogs again, and they’d taken off running. Before Keith...
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