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Author Archives: amylynn714
Vanilla Days
(This story was read at the Litchfield Writers Guild Coffeehouse, June 14, 2017.) My college roommate dated a guy who would only eat smooth ice cream. No walnuts, chips, or chunks. John’s reasoning was he didn’t want roadblocks intruding on … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“Revising isn’t difficult. All I do is cut some things out and move some things around. When you think about it, it’s really no different from what heart surgeons do.”
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Touring the Country of Math
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes We all think differently. My grandmother would say, “It takes all kinds to make a world.” She was right. We need doctors … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Daniel Tammet, differences, foreign, life, math, prejudice, probability, savant, Thinking in Numbers
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Thank you, Harper Lee
“A book should be the occasion of rejoicing, but it is seldom that, imparting a feeling of completion but not of satisfaction. I suppose a writer, almost by definition, is a person incapable of satisfaction–which is what keeps him at … Continue reading
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Tagged Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, Revision, To Kill a Mockingbird, Writing
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Forever Changed
My son missed the bus. It was his second year in high school after having been home schooled since fourth grade. I was still homeschooling my two younger children. I would have to wake them up early to drive him … Continue reading
Of Tigers and Teapots
(This was originally written in the fall of 2015. I found it in my drafts and decided it was time to post. Much has changed since I originally penned it, but the sentiment remains the same.) Our family has been … Continue reading
Good Neighbor: Control of Tone in Writing and Life
Reading The Writer’s Control of Tone edited by Edward M. White, I learned something about myself in the first two pages of the introduction. Talk about effective writing! White relates a story of a curriculum salesman visiting a college composition … Continue reading
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