Category Archives: of lives through books

Iconic Feminine and Masculine

May 31, 2011 by Mara Purl

As an author and storyteller, I like to think in archetypes. And nowhere are visual icons more evident than in New York City. I’ve come to think of these two most iconic of all buildings—the Empire State and the Chrysler—as the god and goddess of the architectural landscape. 

This past week in the City everything did seem larger than life. Nothing is more full of dreams writ large than the Jacob Javits Center during Book Expo America. Posters are ten times their normal size, hung in the hangar-like structure as though being pulled by planes swooping low enough to be read.… Read more

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Love the “Aha!”

May 16, 2011 by Mara Purl

I’ve been working on a list of favorite things: walks along the beach, walks in the mountains, walks through museums . . . okay, there’s a walking theme here, I get that.

But then I wondered what else do these favorite activities have in common? And it occurred to me it’s the moments where an insight flashes, as though someone suddenly turned on a light bulb.

When these moments occur, maybe I’ve have been puzzling over why a character in my current novel travels to a certain location. Or I might be intrigued by someone’s unexpected reaction to something I’ve written.… Read more

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Mother – Daughter Love

May 9, 2011 by Mara Purl
Listening. That's what transforms the complexities of the Mother-Daughter relationship.
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An Elevated View

April 18, 2011 by Mara Purl
A new anthology of writers-on-writing is published by Seven Oaks Publishing, featuring Mara Purl, Margaret Coel, and Laurie Wagner Buyer.
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Go With the Flow

April 11, 2011 by Mara Purl
FLOW can be active, rather than passive, when we use it as a metaphor to see what's flowing in our lives, and what's not, because it's frozen, diverted, or swirling into energy-sucking funnels.
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April No Foolin’

April 4, 2011 by Mara Purl
Fiction isn't about fooling readers. It's about telling truth at the deepest level, which is speaking from the heart.
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Presidential Aspirations

February 21, 2011 by Mara Purl

Have you ever thought about being President? What’s the first thing that springs to mind when you ponder the notion? Is it something like, “Ack! No way!” Everyone who’s ever held that office must’ve had a similar moment—or many such.

So, have you ever wanted to be president of anything? Have you ever been president of anything? I remember so clearly how I felt on my first day as president of CIPA, Colorado Independent Publishing Association www.cipa.org. Heart pounding, I kept thinking, “I must be crazy! What Was I Thinking??” 

Why? What’s so frightening about leadership? I began to realize that, as an author, I was already “president” of my Milford-Haven Novels.… Read more

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