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Marci Diehl

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Rochester NY, The United States

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Marci Diehl has been a writer ever since she was the geek who got excited when her grammar school class had to write paragraphs for English.. As a traveling mother of four, she started writing for national, regional and local magazines on lifestyle, golf, travel, and humor when she wasn't traveling the country and parts of the world while her former husband played the PGA Tour. She lives in the Finger Lakes area of New York State. ...more

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What are you currently working on?

Marci Diehl I'm trying to decide which of the 5 titles I have in my head should be my next book. I have a decent start on one, but am puzzling over what the male …moreI'm trying to decide which of the 5 titles I have in my head should be my next book. I have a decent start on one, but am puzzling over what the male character's story is. He hasn't told me yet. Another has most of the story/plot lined up. Then there are the titles that live on post-it notes on my desk. Sadly, they still need real stories to belong to. They're vague dreams, really. Meanwhile, I write on the magazine/marketing side for a living. (less)

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How do you get inspired to write?

Marci Diehl Writing is as natural to me as breathing. In fact, I think of it as a kind of alien breath -- if you are from the Writer Planet, it's how you breathe.…moreWriting is as natural to me as breathing. In fact, I think of it as a kind of alien breath -- if you are from the Writer Planet, it's how you breathe. When you're not writing something -- and I mean, any sort of writing that is communicating something to someone somewhere -- you feel stifled.

I grew up writing. I started writing letters as a second grader, writing to my aunt, who was a nun teaching in the Baltimore/Philadelphia area. I kept that correspondence going for about 50 years, until she died. I wrote long, long letters, sometimes in one of those composition notebooks with the black marbled covers. I wrote over a period of days or weeks, until I finished the letter -- by that time it was more of a journal written to one person.

I wrote plays and columns and short stories and all sorts of things as a teen. I wrote huge missives to my college love that I had to add extra postage to mail. Then, I got married right out of college. And my writing fizzled out for years -- ten, to be exact, as I concentrated on being a Super Wife and mother to 4 sons in 8 years.

So when I say I feel stifled without writing, I know how that feels. But here's the thing -- I never stopped reading. I was and am an avid reader when I'm not writing. I read wonderful books, books I fell in love with, by writers I fell in love with. And there in lies one answer to this question of how I get inspired to write.

Great writing inspires me to want to write. I want to create that magic I feel when I read something wonderful.

I'm inspired every day. Titles come me. Ideas for stories roll around in my head like marbles in an empty drawer as I walk every day. It's sort of a problem -- I see too many things, hear too many pieces of people's stories, and see too many chances to write, all the while trying to get normal things done in a day, like earn a living and nurture real relationships and try to get the carpeting in my downstairs pulled out...

The details of Real Life on this planet may cut into writing time, but they are also great for enriching the stories forming like cloud formations on my Writer Planet. (less)

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Average rating: 4.38 · 21 ratings · 11 reviews · 2 distinct works

	What You Don't Know Now by Leslie Taylor (Illustrator), Marci Diehl (Goodreads Author), Cynthia Kolko (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	What You Don't Know Now: A romantic coming of age novel. by Marci Diehl (Goodreads Author), Cynthia Kolko (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leslie Taylor (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	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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When Bridey met the Marine – Europe, 1967, and Vietnam

I’ve been following Ken Burn’s intense PBS series, The Vietnam War.

I’ve been live-tweeting it on Twitter with the audience across the country, with viewers sharing their own reactions to the compelling, horrifying, brutally honest history of that war. So many were not born until after the war. A shocking amount of people knew nothing about it until now, with this documentary series.

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While this is a gripping suspense/thriller, and it did keep me reading to find out the outcome - which side was I on, Grace's or Calvin's? -- the author had two glitches in her writing that had me rolling my eyes as I came across more and more of the ...more
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