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Linda Joy Myers's avatar

Thank you for speaking the magic, the woo with no apologies for being able to notice the subtleties in life, the waves of being and seeing only some of us woo people put into words. As you know, I had one of those “a character spoke to me” events that spurred me on to write my first novel. Yay to these special moments and even sharing them!

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Amy Turner's avatar

I experienced a lot of woo writing my memoir, but wanted to share what I heard Dani Shapiro say last night at a book event. In 2020 she came across 100 pages she'd written in 2010. The doctor-father- character was fully formed at that point. She liked the pages and they became the basis of her novel "Signal Fires." When she finished the manuscript her son pointed out something that - amazingly-hadn't occurred to her. The doctor character was eerily ("mystically," she said) similar to her biological father-both pulmonologists, and alike in appearance and temperament- whose existence she didn't become aware of until 2016. (As you probably know, that discovery was the subject of her memoir, "Inheritance"). Somehow her subconscious was aware of her biological father years before her discovery....

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