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    Writer’s Process Blog

    Sunday, August 19th, 2007

    An excellent example of a writer’s process blog is here, the blogspot blog of Karen Fisher-Alaniz. I have been following her development of her (and her father’s) connected memoir-letters composite, Breaking the Code-A Daughter’s Journey, for several months. She has posted on the Absolute Write forums on the thousand questions a first-time author faces, and […]

    Solving a Problem 1

    Friday, August 3rd, 2007

    I have gone silent on both my Hadabrain blog - the actual writing of the memoir, and this blog, the process of writing the memoir.
    Hadabrain refers to the song in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz - “If I Only Had A Brain (A Heart, the Noiv)” sung by The Scarecrow, […]

    Solving a Problem 2

    Friday, August 3rd, 2007

    The problem, again, is whether to link my memoir explicitly to the Wizard of Oz, as in the working title (If I Only) Had A Brain. You can see the simpler solution to the identification with the Scarecrow, who gets his diploma and thus his brain, from the Wizard, and the slightly more complex identification […]