
Everyone has an origin story. This is the scrap book of the on-going version of mine. A homage to the paradox which is my writing life; neither here nor there but in all places at once.
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Dear Reader,
My first ever blank page began with Dear1. And so many more blank pages after that.
I know how to write a story that begins this way because the first stories were letters and some kind of written missive has accompanied me t...
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Personal reflections of a word witch reimagining herself as published and agented. Words, magick and fictions collide in the machinations of writing.
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