Category: My Platform/Why I Write
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First Write for Yourself
Do try writing your story in your own words though. Break a few pencils, crayons, whatever. Tear pages. Get. It. Out. That is what is most important.
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Austin’s Old Three Hundred
The two main families in my historical novel are members of those southerners who settled along or near the Brazos River in the early 1800s.
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Why I Wrote the Texian Trilogy
I wrote the Texian Trilogy for several reasons.
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Life is Grand, Yet Underneath . . .
San Juan Mountains in the fall, near Silverton, Colorado.
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Family Secrets
We can even keep secrets from ourselves.
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Love Games Waste Your Time
Say what you mean and mean what you say. Let a person know who you truly are. That is intimacy.
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Step Through Your Fear
It’s those little fears we all face nearly every day that are so easy to deny that bring us down, decision by decision.
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The Value in All Things
By having so much less, I valued what I had so much more.
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Puberty—A Search for Meaning
Puberty began a search for meaning in my life. I think most people round this age begin to examine the same question.
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Gotta Have a Dream
I wanted to live an adventurous life, no matter the risks. I wanted to experience what I read about in books. That dream was a major part of what enabled me to get past what I faced in the present.