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Elle MacNab

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Receiving a thesaurus for my fourteenth birthday, should've been a sign, but sadly it wasn't. I went on to college and graduate school and studied to become an Urban Planner.

Fast forward to the financial crisis of 2008. I was in a tailspin. With the threat of loosing my job, I turned to my pen. Using my trusty thesaurus, I wrote a story that had been rattling in my head for 20 years. I've followed that initial work with bouts of flash fiction as I write my second coming of age novel.

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The Backstory: How I Wrote my Novel

The advent of the financial crisis put me on an employment roller coaster. In the course of two years I was given two pink slips, had my hours cut (even though I was already part-time) moved to another department, moved back, and was finally given a new desk at my old job. I'd been back for a total of three months when an instant message flashed across my screen. My supervisor messaged me that my Read more of this blog post »
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