Every time I visit a museum, no matter how keenly focused I am on what I’ve gone to see, I’m always ambushed by some unexpected discovery. This was the case a few years ago when I was touring the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. I’d gone there to see their pre-Columbian […]
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Whenever I’m developing a main character for a work of fiction, certain traits jump out at me immediately, as they do in real life when I meet someone for the first time—the more observable aspects such as physical appearance, gender, age, race. As I come to know a character better—again, just the way I get
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, every other Monday at around precisely 6:35 pm, a group of about seven to ten writers gather regularly around the cozy mismatched furniture of the Shades of Brown coffee shop to sit quietly in a shared space for nearly two hours before staggering out one by one into the busy shopping area
