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Nov.30.2009
Thanksgiving break, a time for family, feasting, celebrating, and fighting for every writing second you can grab.
You bring your journal with you into the bathroom and lock the door, ignoring the knocks from your kids who ask, "What are you doing in there, Mommy?" You stay up past...
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Nov.25.2009
I've been feeling an awful lot of that "humbug" feeling lately. The holiday season is upon us again with all its demands on our time and dollars, heralded by the turkey trumpets of Thanksgiving and the spectre of Black Friday. I'm too busy and worn out to do the holidays this year! We're...
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Nov.11.2009
This Halloween I had class, so my husband Rick decided to join me in San Francisco while my daughter's bio dad stayed with her at home. They went trick-or-treating and had a nice, long visit, which was good because she doesn't get to see him often. Rick rode the motorcycle down to The City which...
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Sep.23.2009
My muse lounges on my bed, dressed in a tight, black Victorian corset, black silk bloomers, and stiletto heels. Her snake hair is piled high on her head like a Gibson girl, but she looks more like a porn star vampire than an Edwardian icon. "You know," she says, drawing on a cigarette...
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Sep.02.2009
Shhhh... I have a secret. I'm writing a new novel. I'm not sure why I'm doing this because I can't think of a worse time to start in on another novel, which will probably wind up like my last novel: rejected by an agent and then reduced to hiding in my file cabinet, shamed and bruised. I start the...
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May.27.2009
Why is there so much stigma around self-published authors, and yet a self-recorded musician is praised as a creative entrepreneur? Any fledgling, unsigned musician with “Garageband” can make a demo and post it on MySpace. No one looks down on them for doing so; in fact, many great bands have...
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About Terena
I am the owner of Medusa's Muse Press, a micro press located in Northern Caifornia, which publishes transformative non-fiction, especially memoir. When I'm not managing my press and editing other people's writing, I write plays and other types of fiction. I...
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Terena’s Favorite Books
Time Travelers Wife, Perdito Street Station, Confederacy of Dunces, Tropic of Cancer, Justine, Memoir of a Geisha, Shadow of the Wind, Love in the Time of...