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A. Manette Ansay

A Novelist at Work

A. Manette Ansay

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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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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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Parent/Child Collaborations

I used one of my daughter’s drawings in Good Things I Wish You.  She was asked by her pediatrician, at

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Emerging Writers Network

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

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Found Poem

My husband, whose name is Winfried, downloaded an early version of Dragon (a voice-recognition app), onto his iPhone.  All I

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

Projects such as corresponding with book clubs require managing details, and though some claim that God is in the details,

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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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