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Michael G. Hickey Speed writing, automatic writing, or as the Peter Elbow's "Freewriting" explains, there are significant benefits of tapping into the sub-conscious min…moreSpeed writing, automatic writing, or as the Peter Elbow's "Freewriting" explains, there are significant benefits of tapping into the sub-conscious mind without fear of "making mistakes." There is a distinct difference between writing and rewriting.

Pick up an encyclopedia or surf the Internet, find something intriguing, and then write about it as fast as you can without stopping for 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Don't erase or cross words out or stop for anything! Practiced regularly, this will allow words to come more easily.

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Michael G. Hickey Being visited by the Muses! I can't explain it, I can't replicate it in a chemistry lab, but there is an undeniable connection to the cosmic forces in…moreBeing visited by the Muses! I can't explain it, I can't replicate it in a chemistry lab, but there is an undeniable connection to the cosmic forces in the universe that create art. All art. (less)

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Beyond the Latch and Lever

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Michael G. said: " The book’s theme revolves around the concept of doors: where they lead us from, where they lead us to, and the limitless possibilities in-between. The characters are multi-dimensional, the plots unpredictable yet thoroughly believable, and the poetry The book’s theme revolves around the concept of doors: where they lead us from, where they lead us to, and the limitless possibilities in-between. The characters are multi-dimensional, the plots unpredictable yet thoroughly believable, and the poetry unmistakable. Like this line from Elle Blackwood’s protagonist in “Esterbell,” an elderly woman who revisits the château she grew up in post-WWII France. It is an enormous, long since abandoned edifice that tests and reimagines the complexity of “place.”

“Ester had her very own gargoyle to fight off the demons roaming her past.” And this dialogue with her driver: “Have you ever lived in the past?” she asks, searching his face. “Could it be that the past trails after us?” Clearly, Ester and her driver have a complicated, sometimes adversarial relationship with the ghosts from their respective pasts. “Ester folds her arms as if she’s trying to hold herself together.”

Bobbie Peyton’s “Between Heaven and Fire” is the harrowing, haunting story of migrant farmworkers and with all due respect to Mr. Steinbeck, and the plot is far beyond anything in The Grapes of Wrath.

By the end of the first page of Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez’s exquisite “The Two Lives of Agapito Cortez,” the senses have been assaulted, and the reader tossed headfirst into the deep end of the Civil War. This hallucinatory hike through history was perfectly complete and left me trancelike. Amazing writing throughout.

And in Erik Amundsen’s “Home to Skjolden,” the question is not just, can you go home again? The bigger conundrum is, can you make up for lost time? This story is a cocktail of reflection and nostalgia with a dash of hope, and the ending was so… so… well, I’ll let you see for yourself, but it gave me a reason to live! I loved this book!

A few years ago, I saw the Canadian speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson do a reading and Q&A. Afterwards, a colleague introduced us, and I blushed when I admitted I don’t accept fantasy fiction from my creative writing students because they’re cheap knockoffs about zombies and vampires. But Nalo’s book had nothing to do with those cliches, and neither does Beyond the Latch and Lever. This book is alive. This book makes the impossible – possible! ...more "

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