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...convinced that challenging his voices has put his life back on track. He now trains mental-health professionals working with voice hearers, runs a support group and has entered a long-term relationship. Positive voices have appeared, too, he says, waking him at night and reminding him to write down ideas that have become the basis for his first children's book. By listening to what the demons in his past have to say, Bullimore has learned to do more than talk back to the voices: he's managed to find...
Author of more than 75 mysteries, children's books and textbooks, Phyllis Whitney confessed two decades ago, at 85, that she was starting to slow down. "I only write one book a year," she told the Associated Press. Born in Japan to American parents, she spent much of her early life abroad, an experience that informed her stories. Imperiled-but-wily female protagonists and the men they loved featured prominently in her work, but Whitney considered herself more mystery writer than romance novelist. She was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988, its highest honor...
...What is the secret to writing a really great play? CME: Well, I think the key is imagining the world before you put it on the stage. Really spend time imagining the world and then grappling with some type of burning question—something that hurts you or makes you curious or really pulls at you—that needs to be answered in theatrical form. I think one of my favorite sayings is “Write what you don’t know about what you know.” I really like that because there...
...teaching four courses this semester in the English department. What do you think of Harvard students? CME: So far I really love the students here. They are very motivated to write, and very eclectic, actually. They are coming in with very different interests and backgrounds...
Meanwhile, her opponents will be regrouping. It is too early to write an obituary for Labor, but the party's ultimate health depends on the direction it takes in the next few months. If last week's defeat causes defiant Laborites to move farther to the left, the party's fortunes will continue to dwindle. But if Labor steers back to a more moderate course, then at least it stands a chance of reversing the decline...