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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Merryl Hammond My mother left our family when I was very young, so my older sister and I were raised by my single father for several years before he remarried. This …moreMy mother left our family when I was very young, so my older sister and I were raised by my single father for several years before he remarried. This was back in the early 1960s, when divorce was very rare, and single fatherhood much more so. I never learned my mom's real reason for "abandoning" the nest. She did remarry soon after, so I assume there was a wild love affair of some sort? I've often dreamed of teasing out various possible scenarios, and also of tracing possible outcomes for me as a child and teen: what if she'd stayed in a miserable—possibly abusive—marriage? What if my father had run off, instead of my mother? What if she'd taken me with her when she left? And so on, endlessly. Both my parents are long dead now, so I'm left with my ruminations and imaginations... Great fodder for a novel, perhaps!(less)

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Merryl Hammond I would travel to the fictional world I'm writing about in my first YA novel, and would sit down and talk with each character about how they're thinki…moreI would travel to the fictional world I'm writing about in my first YA novel, and would sit down and talk with each character about how they're thinking and feeling about the chaotic events that have engulfed them. (The teen protagonist's mother gets diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and the whole family gets so severely disrupted it almost cracks apart.) I have personally lived through some of this drama, but I was the mother. It's both fascinating and challenging for me to write from the teen daughter's perspective in this novel.(less)

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	Mad Like Me: Travels in Bipolar Country 4.12 avg rating — 255 ratings — 3 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
	Navigating Bipolar Country: Personal and Professional Perspectives on Living with Bipolar Disorder by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Julie Fast, Natasha Tracy (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 24 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
	COVID-19 in Bipolar Country: Survival tips for mental stability during the coronavirus pandemic 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	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
	One World, One Earth: Educating Children for Social Responsibility by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Rob Collins 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	One World, One Earth: Educating Children for Social Responsibility by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Rob Collins 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	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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	Self-directed Learning: Critical Practice by Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author), Rob Collins 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Self-Directed Learning: Critical Practice by Rob Collin, Merryl Hammond (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991 — 6 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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“I also reached out to far-away family and friends for emotional support. You cannot imagine the feelings of un-worthiness and shame that the diagnosis of a mental illness had caused me. I knew intellectually that I was not at fault, but I judged myself nonetheless. I had internalized the stigma around mental illness.”
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“Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is characterized by significant shifts of mood, energy and activity.”
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