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When the Lake Runs Dry
The red is reeds or grass growing on the lakebed where there ought to be water. We need rain.
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How Old is Too Young?
GalleyCat raises the issue of an author’s age. Is a teenage writer’s voice more genuine than an older writer writing for the same YA market? Is it better to write in the midst of teen angst, or looking back on it from a few years distance? Can a teen only write for a teen market…
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Open Thread for Authors at Dear Author
I just posted about The Price of Freedom on Dear Author’s Open Thread for Authors for June. It is an indescribable pleasure to present your own novella to the world. Happy, happy, happy, … I hope other readers are as excited as I am by the mysteries of the Middle East. Angels, djinn, curses and courage.…
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“In Memory of W B Yeats” by W H Auden
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
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Ernest Dowson, “Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam” (trans. as Life’s short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes in Oxford Book of Short Verse)
They are not long, the days of wine and roses: