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Marta Pelrine-Bacon

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Author: mapelba

I'm a writer, artist, teacher, mother, wife, daughter, friend, coffee addict... What else? A success, a failure, a mess, a fan, a hater of housework, a lover of dogs, a liberal, an obsessive, and a bunch of other things that probably would never occur to me. I reveal myself in more ways in my writings and art than in any list of adjectives. And whoever you are, I hope most of all that you are a reader.

The Writing Crush

On June 6, 2007April 15, 2011 By mapelbaIn story, writingLeave a comment

That's what good writing feels like--that delicious crush calling and wanting to see you, that rush to tell your friends about what your object of desire said or did, that lovely oh-he-kissed-me moment. Silly to admit to, I suppose, but when I believe (rightly or wrongly--just like rightly or wrongly choosing the guy) that my …

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Plot in Real Time

On June 5, 2007April 15, 2011 By mapelbaIn writing2 Comments

Before lakebelle I could pull back and set a scene, explain what was going on in a character's head, find the mood. Writing in first person all the time and having only their musings to spin a plot wears me out. The characters, well-drawn or not, possess immediate lives and I find myself thinking about …

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The Fictional World

On May 29, 2007April 15, 2011 By mapelbaIn blogging, novel, other blog, writingLeave a comment

to the visitors of lakebelle.blogspot.com This post is to acknowledge that lakebelle exists in my imagination and in cyberspace but on no real world map. The three characters come from novels--novels by me. Paul survived being seventeen and in love in The Blue Jar. Linnie did her best to save the doomed heroine in Drowning …

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