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Thank You, Dorothy Shoemaker

D.Lynn — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Thoughts of gratitude and appreciation upon winning 1^st prize in the Adult Division of the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards Contest.

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Bold Experiment

D.Lynn — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

This novel conglomerates and focuses several fascinations of mine, as detailed here.

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New Medium, New World

D.Lynn — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

This novel website (pun intended) tests my vision for the Internet as a new compositional medium. Find out how.

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Every Word Counts

D.Lynn — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Lance Armstrong’s Motto: Every second counts. My Motto: Every word counts. Write once. Edit ad nauseam.

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“The Second Coming” William Butler Yeats

D.Lynn — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

In the novel post "Phoenix Slouching", I reference this poem by William Butler Yeats.

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Work in Progress

D.Lynn — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

I commit to working on the progressive realization of this novel daily and publishing something (of the book, about the book, or about my experience with the book) on this website regularly in 2015. I hope you will hold me accountable to doing it.

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It’s Magic. Really.

D.Lynn — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The book post entitled "Phoenix Slouching" introduces the novel’s first reference to an extraordinary event, occurring in an otherwise mundane existence and places it within the genre of Magic Realism.

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And So It Began

D.Lynn — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The post “Forethought” marks the beginning of the story “Death by Water”, within the story “Life by Drowning”, to which I alluded when I called this a “multi-dimensional novel”. Although Gisa Catarina Gärtner and the Gärtner family is fictional, the setting is real and the historical details are accurate to the best of my knowledge. Here are some background details.

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My Life: The Short of It

D.Lynn — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Credit to Portia Nelson for this format. In 1993, she wrote her “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters”. I needed six chapters to complete mine—I’m more verbose.

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It’s Not ‘Historical Reality’, It’s ‘Historical Fiction’

D.Lynn — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000

What to do when the historical details I need are not readily accessible? Allow my current inability to check historical facts to bring my story to a screeching halt just as it was starting to pick up momentum? Or plough ahead, imaginatively filling in the gaps as best I can, with the intention of editing for accuracy later?

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