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Cristel Orrand

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Born
in Fort Belvoir, VA, The United States
August 19

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Cristel Orrand is an author of fiction, mini-biographies, poetry and is currently working on her first foray into historical fiction, set in NC during the Revolutionary War and brought to life through a strange series of events and lively cast of characters, including the Rev. David Caldwell and Daniel Boone.

Cristel grew up in a military family, moving back and forth across the US, and living in Turkey and Jordan for several years. The Amalgamist is in part, an acknowledgement of the gift of a childhood spent in the Middle East, and the product of a perpetual dissident, who finally remembered what she always wanted to be.

She’s spent the last ten years working in federal and commercial IT consulting, where her degrees in French and Politica
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Cristel Orrand I was asked this recently and described it as an author's coma. I got about 75% of The Amalgamist written and couldn't figure out how to end it. I spe…moreI was asked this recently and described it as an author's coma. I got about 75% of The Amalgamist written and couldn't figure out how to end it. I spent about 6 months in that black hole waiting for the perfect ending to come to me. It didn't.

I just sat down and forced myself to write. The first hour was a lot of typing "I don't know what to do" but once I got that negativity out, the block was gone. Within 2 hours, I was back to writing. My advice is to write, work through it. There's no sense wasting 6 months when the odds are you're blocking yourself.(less)
Cristel Orrand Write. No matter what. And know that the less you plan, the more you'll have to edit. ;)

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Write. No matter what. And know that the less you plan, the more you'll have to edit. ;)

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I shouldn't commit to anything else right now, I know I REALLY should not, but a promise, even- or maybe especially- one made to a ghost, can't be taken lightly.
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Some time ago, quite by accident, I found the burned out remains of Old Sheldon Church, and there the grave of Sarah Chisolm, by taking a wrong a turn through the middle of nowhere South Carolina, near but not even in a 4.5 mile wide ha Read more of this blog post »
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