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Ciahnan is the author of the award-winning novels A Lifetime of Men and Blood at the Root. His fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Gone Lawn, The Columbia Review, and Marginalia. He holds an MDiv and a PhD in Comparative Literature, and can often be found in the Maine woods with his wife and son.

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Ciahnan Darrell I read poetry, take walks, and hike. I feel a strong body/mind connection, so taking care of one usually stimulates the other. I'll also revisit books…moreI read poetry, take walks, and hike. I feel a strong body/mind connection, so taking care of one usually stimulates the other. I'll also revisit books that I've loved, and read and read through the years.

And perhaps most important of all: I keep sitting down and trying to write. You don't have to have an idea to write, or to be inspired. Just sit down, and write one good sentence. Work on you craft. (less)
Ciahnan Darrell The research, without question. I love tracking down the oddities and information that will allow you to bring a story to life.
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A Lifetime of Men

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“A writer, no matter what the context, is made an outsider by the demands of his vocation,”
― Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

“A lightning flash peels shadows from the yard and leaves a dark strip under the cave of the barn. I feel a scum on my skin in the still air. I take my supper to the porch.”
― Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness—on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“In case I have not said this somewhere earlier in the book I will say it now: beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events. And beware of exactly the same things when you read any other book on this period of the Spanish war.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

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Ciahnan Darrell Cece wrote: "Hiya, thanks for friend request. What book is Owen Meany from? Excited to chat up some bookish things with ya !! (✿◠‿◠)

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The book is A Prayer For Owen Meany. It's fabulous in so many ways. https://bookshop.org/books/a-prayer-f...


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Cece ❀Rants, Raves &Reviews❀ Hiya, thanks for friend request. What book is Owen Meany from? Excited to chat up some bookish things with ya !! (✿◠‿◠)

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