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Michael Sirois was reading by the age of four, and writing stories by the third grade. In high school he fell in love with acting, and added that to his repertoire. After college, armed with English and Drama degrees, he taught writing, drama, and technology in the middle school trenches for two decades, but continued to act and write. One of his stories, Loonie Louie, placed in the top hundred of the 1989 Writer's Digest Short Story contest. The 1990's saw his one-act play, Baum in Limbo, produced in Houston. His screenplay, An Ordinary Day, survived the first round of cuts in the 2005 season of Project Greenlight, beating out over 5,000 other scripts. An excerpt from his first novel saga, If a Butterfly, was featured in Rice University's ...more

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Michael Sirois There have been so many good ones (Romeo and Juliet, obviously; Jake and Sadie in 11/22/63, and tons more). This is hard to answer, but I would have t…moreThere have been so many good ones (Romeo and Juliet, obviously; Jake and Sadie in 11/22/63, and tons more). This is hard to answer, but I would have to say my current favorite couple is probably Claire and Jamie from the Outlander series. Despite all the obstacles they face (no spoilers) they always manage to find each other across time and distance. I did find it disheartening, though, when I Googled "fictional couples" prior to answering this to find very few references to couples from literary works on lists unless they had been turned into films or TV shows. Some even had comic book couples listed. Sad.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Michael Sirois I don't experience it. There have been times when I feel I'm not ready to write a particular scene (and, yes, sometimes I'm in the middle of writing i…moreI don't experience it. There have been times when I feel I'm not ready to write a particular scene (and, yes, sometimes I'm in the middle of writing it when that happens), but I usually either power through and revisit it later, or I write something else until the solution for the scene comes to me. It's a process, and it's often not easy, but I can't think of any times when I've just stared at a blank screen willing hopelessly for something to appear.(less)

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	The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, David O'Connell (Narrator), Elizabeth Klett (Narrator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,048,032 ratings — published 1601 — 419 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Peter Eastman (Narrator), Deborah Clark (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,011,063 ratings — published 1859 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Goff (Narrator), audiotoshokan (Narrator) 3.50 avg rating — 14,827 ratings — published 1838 — 500 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penguin Island by Anatole France, A.W. Evans (Translator), Michael Sirois (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.66 avg rating — 2,220 ratings — published 1908	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jagged Man 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Emergence (If a Butterfly Book 2) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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[Medical and Literary Updates:
I’m still finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now.

One of the things I’m supposed to do for my physical therapy, in addition to specific exercise

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Michael Sirois wrote a new blog post Mice and Reunions… Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I have done a little more writing, but not much. I need to push myself over the next few weeks to finish the first d Read more of this blog post »
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

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