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Scott Driscoll

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Sheldon, Iowa, The United States

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Scott Driscoll, an award-winning writing instructor at the University of Washington, Continuing and Professional Education, took several years to finish Better You Go Home (October 2013, Coffeetown Press), a novel that grew out of the exploration of the Czech side of his family in the 1990s after Eastern Europe was liberated. Driscoll keeps busy teaching and freelancing stories to airline magazines while starting work on his next novel.

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Scott Driscoll I push away from my clipboard or my PC and go for a bike ride. Or, if I can't do that, I scribble notes. Or, if I must keep at it, I take a really bor…moreI push away from my clipboard or my PC and go for a bike ride. Or, if I can't do that, I scribble notes. Or, if I must keep at it, I take a really boring page or two and I start adding details, twisting verbs, pushing the atmospherics until it seems the Apocalypse is coming sooner than later. Suddenly, the forest of words is alive again with sounds and sights and smells you can't ignore.(less)

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Scott Driscoll A collection of connected stories with characters who persist over time, grow older, have kids, break up, screw up, face challenges and generally push…moreA collection of connected stories with characters who persist over time, grow older, have kids, break up, screw up, face challenges and generally push toward a tipping point in their lives. It's a bit like doing a longitudinal study, but you cheer them on. You whisper warnings. You step back and watch them make the mistakes you predicted they would. But, every now and then they surprise you.(less)

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Better You Go Home

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The Most Beautiful Songs

Reading The Power of Song by Guntis Ŝmidchens, I came across the line, “The most beautiful songs have yet to be sung.” Lifted from a 19th century Estonian poem by Friedrich Saebelmann and set to music to help promote the Baltic Singing Revolution, this line, this poem, caused me to stop everything. I put the book down. Glanced around the dimly lit café. The nervous, bearded mumbling street seller Read more of this blog post »

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