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April Book Haul

April 4, 2016 No Comments

Hey y’all! Welcome back to The American Woman. I know I haven’t been around in a while. This was due to some moving, some family stuff I had to deal with, and overall a generally stressful last couple of months. It’s not that I haven’t written anything, honestly, it’s that I haven’t written anything good. Everything I’ve got going on at the moment needs some serious rewriting. I am sure you’ve experienced this part of your own creative life. Today, I did a little retail therapy and visited my local Catholic charities store. It’s like Goodwill or the Salvation Army, […]

Reading

The 2015 Book List

January 2, 2016 No Comments

By Corissa Haury This year, I was proud to finish a dozen books. Twelve books may not seem like a lot, but I savored every one of them. Reading was not a competition this year. It was a privilege. I started off the year with a lazy re-read of one of my favorite fantasy books, A Feast For Crows, from the Song of Ice & Fire series by George R. R. Martin. There are two huge things that reading the books that became Game of Thrones taught me. Number one, do not just reveal something to the reader outright. Reveal it through the […]

Motivation, Poetry, Reading

The Hangman

January 3, 2013 No Comments

I’ve been writing a bit today, and in some of my research for a character, I found some interesting works, including this by Maurice Ogden. It’s an excellent piece, and I think all too often we miss these days what Ogden was pointing out we missed in the old days… We never look close enough at what’s going on around us or do enough to change the world. So with that in mind, enjoy this interesting poem. Incidentally, my Hanged Man in my novel is only slightly related. I do like the poem, though. Hangman by Maurice Ogden 1. Into our town the […]