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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: The Writing Process

A Mayan Myth of Love, Self-Sacrifice & the Creative Process

February 19, 2023

I mentioned in my last post that I wrote a myth about the creation of the isthmus that now comprises …

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“Catching Every Falling Cup” – A Primal Urge

October 30, 2022

This phrase from my poem Brimless Being is becoming a mantra I turn to often these days. It’s about the …

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Immersed in My Art, Finally

May 2, 2022

Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …

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Poetry Making and the Art of Awe

December 12, 2021

I’ve been working on a poem I began here on this blog. It is a process, a gentle undoing and …

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Writing Again, Loving It

June 27, 2021

I’m working again on that novel I wrote about in The White Hot Flow of Writing some time ago. I …

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Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie

June 3, 2019

I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …

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On Photography – Researching My Sequel

March 16, 2019

I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …

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Endings & Beginnings, A Writer’s Life

January 30, 2019

Well, I just finished rewriting the ending of my novel as requested by a publisher. We will see what they …

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A Happy Ending for My Novel? For My Son?

December 2, 2018

One of the publishers we sent my novel to wants a rewrite of the ending. While their readers said they …

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Following the Yellow Brick Road to Publishing

July 30, 2018

So far I’ve heard from nine publishing houses, all complimentary, all passing on my novel. Highlight the word “complimentary.” I …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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