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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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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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Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux

March 28, 2019

How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …

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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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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost

December 16, 2018

I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …

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True Tales Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 27, 2018

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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The Poetics of Place: Redwood Speech,Watershed Prayers

September 2, 2018

“I want to see our words jump off the ground, erupt from a sensual earth, musty, humid, gritty. I want …

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Recipe for a Painting: Durrell on Venice at Dawn

August 24, 2018

Quote of the Week “These thoughts belong to Venice at dawn, seen from the deck of the ship which is …

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Five Debut Novels Worth Sampling

August 12, 2018

I’ve been putting together a reading list of recently published debut novels that have been making a splash in the …

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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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