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July 2014 | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Monthly Archives: July 2014. A Love Note to Readers. July 8, 2014. Writing is often lonely work. When it goes well, it is deeply satisfying. When it doesn’t, it is beyond frustrating. Word by word, sentence by sentence, we writers labor to share a created reality with our readers. When readers respond with gratitude, support, and kudos, well, it feels wonderful. The fortunes of my book changed.
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February 2015 | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Monthly Archives: February 2015. February 10, 2015. In her very fine visual memoir, painter LeeAnn Brook. Weaves tales about creativity. That go deep into her own process. Each image in the book has a story, and a history that links it to other images and to the artist’s life and her previous work. Artist and author LeeAnn Brook. Again and never looked back. I have known LeeAnn Brook for more ...
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April 2015 | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Maya’s unfolding life. April 6, 2015. Being a mother who outlives her child is mind blowing. It’s a lot of other things too, of course. But on this day, the 23. Anniversary of Maya’s death, it’s the mind-bending aspect that grabs me. Six months from now we will celebrate Maya’s 43. How is it possible that my daughter would have four decades under her belt? The tra...
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Swimming with Maya | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Then at age 19, Maya mounts a horse bareback as a dare and, in a crushing cantilever fall, is left in a coma from which she will never recover. Eleanor’s life is turned upside down as she struggles to make the painful decision about Maya’s fate. Click on the links below for more information:. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Subscribe to Blog via Email.
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November 2014 | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Monthly Archives: November 2014. Trust your instincts when you revise. November 22, 2014. Faced with conflicting feedback, what’s a writer to do? My answer is simple but not easy: Trust your instincts and be willing to revise your work. What is the beleaguered writer to do? This often happens in writing groups. One reader loves a character, another thinks the character is underdeveloped or...
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September 2014 | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Monthly Archives: September 2014. September 15, 2014. Lizbeth Meredith recently interviewed me for her blog, LAMeredith. What Every Memoir Writer Should Know. 8220;When the unimaginable happens, how do we go on? 8221;: an interview with author Eleanor Vincent. Reaching Out to Readers on Social Media. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window).
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WORKS | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story. Capital Books/IPM, Hardcover, 2004. Dream of Things, Paperback and eBook, 2013. Is about the unique and complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, and celebrates how that relationship continues to exist beyond the grave. Chronicles a remarkable friendship between a grieving mother and the man who lived because her daughter’s heart beat in his chest. The Courage to Heal.
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Eleanor Vincent | Oakland Cityscapes
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Urban life and lore. Laquo; Older Entries. Writeliving Interview – Ellen Bass. February 3, 2016. A wonderful interview about writing and life with poet Ellen Bass. I just had to reblog this. Who has been a major influence on your writing? My first major influence was Florence Howe, my teacher at Goucher College, with whom I later co-edited. I was immensely fortunate to study with Anne Sexton when she taught in Boston University’s MA in Creative Writing Program. Without her encouragement I. So far, the pe...
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NEWS & EVENTS | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. Is now available on amazon.com. Or at Dream of Things, my publisher’s website. April 12, 2014. On the New York Times e-Book bestseller list for a second time! April 11-13, 2014:. Co-facilitating a workshop with Madeline Sharples: “Telling Healing Stories: How to Write a Compelling Memoir”. Story Circle Network’s Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. October 14, 2013:. Women on Writing blog tour begins! August 4, 2013:.
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Swimming with Maya Resources | Eleanor Vincent
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Skip to primary content. THAT’S THE WAY LIFE LIVES. THE CAT CAME BACK. NEWS & EVENTS. The Compassionate Friends, a peer support organization for bereaved parents and siblings www.thecompassionatefriends.org. We Need Not Walk Alone, National Compassionate Friends magazine. Wwwcompassionatefriends.org/we need not walk alone.aspx. Growth House, www.growthhouse.org/death.html. Mentor Books, www.mentorbooks.com. The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, www.aamft.org. Like Eleanor on Facebook.
