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Pages In the Wind

English - Writing, Book Development, Poetry
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Pages In the Wind · 1W ago

The Mystique of Claire

Emily’s mother, Claire, is beautiful, cold, and mysterious.  It’s a blurring combination of characteristics for the young Emily.  She longs for her mother’s love, and desperately wants to know her, to figure out who she is.  That’s the thing about being cold, isn’t it? A cold personality is often mi
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Pages In the Wind · 1M ago

The Role of Brother is Now Being Played By......

Have you ever discovered someone that you thought you knew, suddenly different in the absence of someone else? It could be someone’s wife that you never knew until you talked to her without the front-and-center husband.  It could be the studious kid sitting in front of you in class, the one with his
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Pages In the Wind · 2M ago

Challenged Beliefs

We go along believing something is true, because that’s all that we know and it’s all that we have experienced.  It could be any belief; who we are based on what we’re told, who we trust based on who we love, or an authority that we don’t question because well…..they are the authority.  Then one day
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Pages In the Wind · 3M ago

Heaven's Blanket - A Metaphor for Change

I wrote this about a year ago for Emily.  It is a metaphor for change, and for hope – if only we can see it.  It’s something that I struggle with, as much today as a year ago – but there is promise in awareness, so I continue to work on it.  I find that it is so easy to get caught up in the trampled
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Pages In the Wind · 3M ago

The Weapon of Silence

For Emily, in Pages in the Wind, she faces the timeless demon of passive aggression - silence. Silence coupled with desire is excruciating.  It is also cruel.  We see this in Pages in the Wind, as Emily spends time with her mother hoping to win her attention. I felt like I had been dropped from a te
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Pages In the Wind · 4M ago

Inward War of Wills

It’s an inward war of wills, I suppose, that battle between what we think is best, and what we want.  Whether it’s a promise to make a boss respect our work more, or a promise to make a relationship better – it is that inward war between the brain and the heart.  The message is usually the same: try
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Pages In the Wind · 4M ago

Torment and Imagination: A Gateway to Creativity or Madness?

In the story, Emily handles her torment and abuse by escaping into her imagination. Her life is fraught with difficulties and every day she has to navigate around an abusive and sadistic father. Her world is difficult to bear, so she creates a world that is woven in happiness and suits her kind natu
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Pages In the Wind · 5M ago

Whispers

It's a whisper, not a shout.   As the young mind develops, his beliefs align with what is right in front of him.  He believes what his parent or guardian tells him, because he hasn't been exposed to other ideas and accepts what the apparent all-knowing adult tells him.  Unfortunately, as in Emily's
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Pages In the Wind · 6M ago

The Role of Authority and Charisma - with Thoughts about the Penn State Scandal

As I have worked with character development, the personalities of the characters have changed little; but in thinking about how they look through the lens of a child - they have. As children, our parents are infallible. This likely accounts for why it takes so long for severely abused children to b
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Pages In the Wind · 6M ago

Author's Notes

As the book progresses, I have to pause when I think of how each character "looks" as opposed to how they "are." In other words, we so often think that we know people but unless we dig down and really try to understand them - we probably don't know them at all. So much of their life experiences are
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