“Every woman extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter.”
Carl Jung
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Naming Names
One of the fun parts of writing and making up lives is that you get to name everyone. So how do we authors think up names? There’s the old tip to walk around cemeteries and get inspired by the names of persons long gone, but I’ve never done that. Sometimes it comes to you in…
Quilting Elements and Writing Roses
While I was a new mother attending graduate school, I yearned for some small, creative activity to soften my busy life. Because the winters are so cold in Minnesota (U of MN graduate), quilting is a big hobby. So, I signed up for a hand quilting class, and it was just what I needed—a mental and…
Sepia Brown Nostalgia
Old photographs figure large in my second novel, Imprint and Inheritance. Colleen shows Julia old photos from 1920 – 1960 to reminisce, and one particular photo is the inciting incident for the novel. Most were black and white, but the earliest photos were sepia-toned. As I wrote, I wondered if black-and-white photos turned sepia with…
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Donna Barten 