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Rebecca Cook

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in Fort Oglethrope, The United States

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http://www,godlikepoet.com

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Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Memoir

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Lauren Slater, Ellen Gilchrist, Lauren Winner, Moby Dick, Lolita, Anne ...more

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November 2013

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Rebecca Cook writes poetry, short fiction, essays, experimental essays and lyrics, and novels.

Her first published novel is CLICK and can be purchased at Amazon.com She has published two books of poems, I will Not Give Over (available on Amazon and at Kelsay Books) and The Terrible Baby (available at Dancing Girl Press).

Rebecca was a 2009 Bread Loaf Scholar and her lyric essay, ”Flame,” published by Southeast Review(2012), was chosen as a notable essay for the 2013 Best American Essays.

She has published poems, essays, and stories in The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, Southeast Review, Sliver of Stone, Atticus Review, Wicked Alice, The Rumpus, Pank, The Nervous Breakdown, and many others.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rebecca Cook I don't. When I can't write, I can't write.

In the past, I would muddle around in despair when I had dry spells. Now I know that when I'm not writing,…moreI don't. When I can't write, I can't write.

In the past, I would muddle around in despair when I had dry spells. Now I know that when I'm not writing, my brain is perking and buzzing away and the time will come when all of that stuff just pours out.

Some writers must write every day and advise other writers to do the same. I am not one of those writers. I write when I hear the voices in my head. If I force myself to write, the results are forced and I never love those pieces.(less)

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Rebecca Cook Nailing the dismount--that feeling that you've just done it! and it's really really good and you can't wait for someone to read it.…moreNailing the dismount--that feeling that you've just done it! and it's really really good and you can't wait for someone to read it.(less)

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Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

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“i am about castle walls and ivy growing wild”
― Rebecca Cook

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Rebecca’s Quotes

“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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“i am about castle walls and ivy growing wild”
― Rebecca Cook

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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom

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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel