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Writers Lab: Influences (opens the original)
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Good morning, Lab Coats. Debbie here, thinking about influences this week.I have loved reading your pieces from the Writers Lab LIVE last week. If you missed the September Live or want a refresher on the Layering exercise we did (and are still working with), you can find the PDF in Chat. I’ve had a fruitful week working on Charlottesville and have been thinking about influences for this book. For every book I’ve written, I eventually have a playlist and influences that m
Storybelly Digest: Everything is OK (opens the original)
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Good afternoon, Storybellers, and welcome to the whiplash of traveling between decades, which I’ve been doing big-time this past week. 1.I’m time folding with my novel Charlottesville. I’m traveling between the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy to 2017’s Unite the Right rally, bringing in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and rock & roll from Anthem, <a href="https://deborahwiles.com/revolution-by-deborah-wile
Writers Lab: The Oldest Person You Know (opens the original)
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My great-grandmother was born in 1877, after the Civil War and during Reconstruction, and I knew her. Her daughter, my grandmother, was born in 1897, still in the 19th century, and I knew her, too. I was surrounded by old people — mostly old women — growing up summers in Mississippi. Great-great-great aunts (really!) and no grandfathers, no great-great uncles. The men in my family died young, but the women… well, the women lived and lived. And I knew them.Everyone in Louin, Mississippi (in Jaspe
Storybelly Digest: Keeping on Keeping on (opens the original)
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Good morning, Storybellers, here (finally) in September. It has been such a long, hot summer in Atlanta and now we are in the dog days. My car registered an outside temperature of 103 degrees while I was out doing errands yesterday after physical therapy. I’ve got a bum right arm which has made it difficult to type for very long at a time, not to mention do other tasks, but it’s getting better and here I am, using both hands to type, at the level of “a little better than hunt and peck with my le
Writers Lab: Writing About Anchors (opens the original)
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This week’s Writers Lab is open to all Storybelly subscribers.Morning, Lab Coats. Debbie here. I seem to be in a season of loss this year, and I’m at a loss (rueful smile) as to how to address it. Not to address it feels disingenuous of me, and yet I’ve just written about the loss of Jim’s sister in the last Digest post, did not write about the April loss of our friend Mike who was a brother to me, and I don’t want to write about the loss of my long-time, long-loved friend Cindy this past weeken
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