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Chris Orcutt walking in Vermont's Green Mountains, photo by Chris Orcutt

26Jun

Only Have Time for Essentials

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by Chris Orcutt
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“At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.” — Virginia Woolf, diary, 3/22/1928 I stumbled upon this quotation earlier this week.…

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15Feb

Paying Attention as a Fiction Writer

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I have been writing fiction since I was 13 years old, when I first read Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger and was swept away not only by the…

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27Apr

A Written Interview with Authors in the Spotlight with Lucie Dunn

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In my blog post yesterday, I mentioned my upcoming internet radio interview with Pam Stack, host of Authors on the Air, on Wed., April 30…

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