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A. Manette Ansay

A Novelist at Work

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    • Good Things I Wish You
      • Good Things I Wish You: Author’s Statement
      • Good Things I Wish You: BookList Review
      • Good Things I Wish You: Images
      • Good Things I Wish You: Links
      • Good Things I Wish You: Background on Clara (Wieck) Schumann
      • Good Things I Wish You: Excerpts
      • Good Things I Wish You: Footnotes
      • Good Things I Wish You: Notes on Images
      • Good Things I Wish You: Extra Images
      • Good Things I Wish You: Reading Guide
    • Blue Water
      • Blue Water: Chelone Cruising Gallery
      • Blue Water: Excerpt
      • Blue Water: Q & A
      • Blue Water: Reader’s Guide
    • Limbo
      • Limbo: Excerpt
      • What’s going on with your health, anyway?
    • Midnight Champagne
      • Midnight Champagne: Excerpts
      • Midnight Champagne: FAQs
      • Midnight Champagne: Reader’s Guide
    • River Angel
      • River Angel: Excerpts
      • River Angel: Reader’s Guide
    • Sister
      • Sister: Excerpts
      • Sister: Reader’s Guide
    • Read This and Tell Me What It Says
      • Read This and Tell Me What It Says: Excerpts
      • Read This and Tell Me What It Says: Reader’s Guide
    • Vinegar Hill
      • Vinegar Hill: Excerpts
      • Vinegar Hill: FAQs
      • Vinegar Hill: Reader’s Guide
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March 7, 2010 Manette

Writing and Obsession

Thinking today about the old chicken-or-the-egg question:  do we choose the stories we tell, or do the stories pick us

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February 18, 2010 Manette

Do you think you have to be unhappy (or lonely) to produce?

This question, and others listed below, emerged from a discussion run by K C Culver, who leads the Literature Group

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February 9, 2010 Manette

Parent/Child Collaborations

I enjoy Caroline Leavitt’s blog at carolineleavittville.com Today she posted an interview with writer Dawn Raffel, who offers these thoughts

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February 4, 2010 Manette

Emerging Writers Network

Emerging Writers Network  just posted a guest blog/essay of mine on “the experience of being edited.”  This site is a

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February 3, 2010 Manette

Found Poem

It seems my German friend Winfried (who give me all my best lines:  see Author’s Statement regarding the writing of

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February 1, 2010 Manette

A Controlled Pause: Thoughts on Dani Shapiro’s “Devotion”

First, a happy update: book club members in Washington, Wisconsin, Indiana, Hawaii, Florida, New York and Maine have requested a

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January 26, 2010 Manette

A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words (or Several Hundred, Anyway)

The inclusion of images in Good Things evolved out of a happy accident. I commute long hours by train to

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July 9, 2009 Manette

Reviews

A roundup of the latest reviews. Fiction Writers Review The honest passion to Ansay’s writing is one that I haven’t

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May 23, 2009 Manette

My Daughter Speaks Her Mind

A round-up Mother’s Day article/interview that mentions Good Things I Wish You, plus my daughter’s ideas about having a writer

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January 16, 2009 Manette

Some Interviews

Some interviews from various sites. PIF Magazine B&N BEATRICE

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  • Parent/Child Collaborations
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