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Ah, Stephen Crane, we need you now…

November 1, 2017December 18, 2020 Stasia

A man said to the universe:    “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me “A sense of obligation.”

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Reading Fiction

Chill-Weather Reads

October 29, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

                    This fall, my reading list is lush with worlds to which I can fly only via words and it feels so right to visit them while my cellular

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Writing Fiction

Small Towns in Fiction: Place as (Un)Motivator

October 14, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

What is it about small towns and dark emotions? Having grown up quite happily in a small town, it never ceases to amaze me how places where there are more farm acres than cows accrue so

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Writing Fiction

FREE CLASS THIS SATURDAY AT KCLS WOODINVILLE: CHARACTER with Lish McBride

October 8, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

SATURDAY, October 14, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library  17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville  Author (Pyromantic; Hold Me Closer, Necromancer; Firebug) and bookseller LISH McBRIDE returns to the Second

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Creativity Writing Fiction

Come take my workshop on Saturday: THIS IS YOUR WRITING YEAR

September 7, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

I can hardly believe everyone is back at school and work and, through the horrible haze of the wildfire smoke-clouded air, I can see the faintest glimmer of that beloved dream: A Fall Routine. I have

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Reading Fiction

My July in Books & Bikes

July 19, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

Trained for five months to prepare for 166 miles of hilly Irish countryside in County Cork and County Kerry (interspersed with pubs and some awesome gin). Worth every moment in the saddle for the views and

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Writing Fiction

Are You Struggling to Write? Try Making a Change.

May 21, 2017December 18, 2020 Stasia

This spring, feeling the repetitive wear of two-decades of freelance work and novel-writing from my kitchen, I went back to “work” — the kind where you drive to an office, wear a corporate ID badge and

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Publishing Your Book

FREE CLASS THIS SATURDAY AT KCLS WOODINVILLE: Enter the Fray – An Inside Look at the Publishing Industry with Tegan Tigani

May 7, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

SATURDAY, May 13, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM  Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library  17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville  To celebrate the conclusion of this year’s Second Saturday Writing Workshops, we invite you to

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Reading Fiction

Spring Reading Recap

April 29, 2017December 29, 2020 Stasia

Given our political climate, perhaps I should not be surprised that the three books at the top of my reading list all explore some aspect of the concept “us and them.” In each of these novels,

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Writing Fiction

“Going There” – A Lesson in Plotting from HOMELAND and THE AMERICANS

April 19, 2017December 18, 2020 Stasia

I’ve been struggling a bit with the manuscript lately. And I don’t think it’s just because life has been busy. I think, at the core, my problem is that I’m tackling something bigger–darker–than I ever have

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