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How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?
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Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.
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Block
Procrastination
Dreaded
Endemic
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We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?
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Ashamed
Past
Way
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Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
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Gratification
Instant
Instant Gratification
Unlike
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All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.
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Woe
Life My Life Way
Stood
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Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.
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Matter
Parent
Wells
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I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.
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Chef
Garlic
Waitress
Cafe
Hat
Hostess
Manager
Shaped
Prep
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I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.
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Former
Lovely
Twenties
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I have a brother I love dearly, although we're not twins! I'm ten years older than he is, so I sometimes feel like his second mother.
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Twins
Dearly
Ten Years
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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Bipolar
Disorder
Consequences
Extreme
Watched
Devastating
Moods
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Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.
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Activities
World Your Keep
Board
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Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.
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And Love
Love Is
Matter
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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Foundation
Holocaust
Survivor
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Survivors
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She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.
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Life
Believe
Doe
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When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see, by mistake, what was coming up next - it was so suspenseful. it's really masterful.
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Masterful
Railroad
Suspenseful
Underground
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Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.
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Home
Heart
Lying
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Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
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Boston
Grad
Grad School
University
I Am Me School
I Am Me Street
Writers
Eve
First Job
Street
Founder
Gave
Stayed
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When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.
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Minneapolis
Radar
Storm
Twenties
Weather
Channel
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I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'
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Fascinated
Hometown
Minnesota
Severe
Weather
Asleep
Everyone Else
Southeast
Tornado
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'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.
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Concentration
Features
Lucky
Memories
Outrun
Peter
Survivor
Bar
Named
Camp
Cbs
Daily
Oyster
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As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street that I grew up with that tolerated and embraced diversity in the Northeast, but in fact was built on the foundation of slavery.
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Sesame Street
Slavery
Embraced
Northeast
Railroad
Reminded
Sesame
Tolerated
Underground
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My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
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Running
Dad
Bob
Television
Terminal
Used
Young
Across
Came
Cbs
Copy
Correspondent
Daily
Dash
Times
Grand
Main
Trains
Newsroom
Pictures
Studio
Sets
Several
Shake
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