Monthly Archives: January 2011

RemembranceTrilogy.com NOW LIVE!

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

Everything you love about the Indie Author’s Blog is now completely ported and available on RemembranceTrilogy.com! All new content will be posted there from now on. So don’t forget to change your bookmarks!

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Jung on Creativity

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

I’m always fascinated with musings on the creative spirit. Jung wrote quite a bit about creativity. Here’s a short quote. “The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art … Continue reading →

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Where I’m From…

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

It all starts from home… Before I launch on travels to “foreign” parts of the world, I want to think about what I am leaving behind—Toronto, Canada—and how it, my hometown has affected me as an individual and a … Continue reading →

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I’ve been puzzling over this one?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

I’ve read that Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders once said: “…how frequently in the course of our lives the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into it, … Continue reading →

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Amazon/Penguin Contest, Literary agents

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

At 12:01 am, January 24th, the Amazon, Penguin Breakthrough Novel Contest opened. At 12:01.5, I began to enter all my documents for The Drawing Lesson,–the Description, the Pitch, the first 5000 words and then the manuscript itself. I pictured the … Continue reading →

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The Red Book by Carl Jung

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

Last night, I was at a lecture given by, Laurie Savlov, a senior Jungian analyst in Toronto, who has undertaken a monumental task—reading, understanding and lecturing about Carl Jung’s Red Book. Lots of people review books, you may say. What’s … Continue reading →

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Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

Who would agree with that statement today? With all the emphasis on design and the importance of visual imagery, it seems very unlikely that, as purchasers of books, we aren’t going to be attracted or repelled, impressed or unimpressed with … Continue reading →

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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

The Architecture of Happiness and writing. I first became a real fan of Alain de Botton’s writing in 2005 when I was visiting Paris by myself for about two weeks. I stopped in at Shakespeare & Company right by the … Continue reading →

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The Writer’s Voice

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Mary E. Martin

THE WRITER’S VOICE. Sometimes critics speak of a writer’s voice. But what do they mean? I think of it as a goal to be achieved on a very long road. It’s that uniquely personal “way” you have of expressing yourself … Continue reading →