Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

For Readers

Dash Off A Memory, Create a Memoir / Precious Keepsakes

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Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles! Precious Keepsakes Hobbies or collectibles from family members seem to become treasures that never leave the home where they were first displayed. I have liquor bottles shaped like model trains (still full of liquor), antique bottles extricated from the earth, and unusual beer bottles in different colors (empty) that my boys say I cannot […]

Guides / Guidance to the Hidden Dimension of Life

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The Hidden Dimension Deepak Chopra calls it The Hidden Dimension of Life. James Redfield calls it The Responsive Universe. Robert Butler calls it The White Hot Center of The Unconscious. Kabir Helminski calls it the Threshold Between Two Worlds. Janet Conner calls it The Intersection. It’s the dimension outside of the normal five senses where your earthly and […]

Silent Deceptions / Idea for a Novel

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Today, guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles shares an idea that is fermenting in her mind about a suspense novel she is thinking about writing. Welcome Dorothy. Idea for a Novel My publisher, Twilight Times Books, has a book out titled, How I Wrote My First Book, told by 20 authors, including me, about what went into writing their […]

Shapes of Fiction /The Iceberg / Silver Flats

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For an assignment in my Structure and Style class through UC Davis Extension, we were asked to write a scene, using two shapes of fiction as outlined in Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern: Iceberg and Visitation. Stern’s Iceberg shape of fiction shows how to handle thoughts, dialogue, and action in writing.  In this shape, the […]

Dash off A Memory / School Days Growing Up

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Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with another lesson on Memoir. What do you remember about your school days? Dorothy has memories a plenty. School Days Growing Up What I remember about my school days—is moving. I never went to the same school twice. Daddy always used to say, “Pumpkin, traveling is the best education you […]

Plug In, Janet Conner, and Synchronicity

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I entered Janet Conner’s Plug In telecourse with an open mind, because I so want to believe that it’s possible to give my soul full expression by stepping into the Intersection. Janet defines the “Intersection” as“a spiritual space in your consciousness where you are able to connect your craft (skills) with your spiritual practice (knowledge and wisdom)” and where “you will receive […]