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Gwen Chavarria
Thanks for the heads up, Cheryl. (I'm not used to rain.) After I read your comment I tried soaking one of my cards in the sink and then rubbing the ink with a paper towel in an attempt to simulate the worst case scenario--a postcard drenched in rain rubbing against other items of mail. The ink (other than the black) did run, but it remained legible. So I think I'm okay.
I did visit your site though, and you have some beautiful work displayed there. I'll keep that in mind in a year or so when I'll be needing a new cover design.
I did visit your site though, and you have some beautiful work displayed there. I'll keep that in mind in a year or so when I'll be needing a new cover design.
Gwen Chavarria
Anyone who sits down to type, as Jack Kerouac reputedly did on a continuous-feed roll of paper, intending to create for hours on end, is bound to hit the wall at some unfortunate point. I don't write like that. I write from a schematic structure of outlines and flowcharts that I plan in advance of most of the actual composition. If I were going to have a block, that is when it would occur, while determining those outline components. But if I were unable to think of the next point in an outline, I wouldn't be halted by that mental void; I'd work on the composition from the outline pieces that I already had in place. Eventually, the next outline point would occur to me.
I don't have much time to write because I'm busy, busy, busy with other commitments--Baha'i functions mostly--so when I do have the opportunity to work on the book, plenty of ideas have built up in my mind, and I have only short periods of time to piece them into the narrative. The book is composited like a mosaic.
I think those who suffer writer's block must be staring down a deadline, whether of their own creation or someone else's, but I'm not. I have the rest of my life to finish the book if I want to take that long. Wait, that could be a pretty short timeline! Maybe I better get crackin'.
I don't have much time to write because I'm busy, busy, busy with other commitments--Baha'i functions mostly--so when I do have the opportunity to work on the book, plenty of ideas have built up in my mind, and I have only short periods of time to piece them into the narrative. The book is composited like a mosaic.
I think those who suffer writer's block must be staring down a deadline, whether of their own creation or someone else's, but I'm not. I have the rest of my life to finish the book if I want to take that long. Wait, that could be a pretty short timeline! Maybe I better get crackin'.
Gwen Chavarria
A fictionalized reminiscence of the 1960's featuring the ironic defection of two teenagers from the peace church in which they were raised.
Gwen Chavarria
I originally conceived of the theme of "Residuals Squared" as a potential website presented as a series of essays offering arguments for the existence of God. I noticed the conflict arising between believers and scoffers was evident in the media. This circumstance suggested the possibility of a fictional treatment of the issue of belief. Many of the vignettes in "Residuals Squared" were based on personal experience.
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