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The Writing Journey: Your Guide to Writing During a Global Pandemic

April 4, 2020 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear while under quarantine. (And he didn’t even have a typewriter back then, much less a computer. He had to write everything by hand!) So, you should have no trouble getting that book done, right? (You know–the one you’ve been talking about forever.) You’re stuck at home anyway, so why not […]

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The Writing Journey: The Legend of Happy-Faced Spiders

November 1, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 3 Comments

I taught myself to read when I was three years old because I wanted to write stories so badly. That’s how my About page begins. However, what I didn’t share is what I did BEFORE I could read. You see, I had the craving even then to tell stories. I wanted so badly to capture the words […]

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The Writing Journey: My New Office!

March 15, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 4 Comments

I have a dirty little secret to share. For years, my office was in my bedroom. While there are many things I love about my house, one thing I don’t love is that it’s only two bedrooms. Sure, they are HUGE bedrooms (our house has a very open floor plan with tons of windows and […]

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The Writing Journey: What Will People Say?

February 25, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

If you’ve read some of my earlier Writing Journey’s, you know that my fiction writing was a bit of a dirty secret. Which meant I didn’t share the fact I wrote fiction, much less the books themselves, with a lot of people. One of the most interesting things that happened once I started publishing my […]

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The Writing Journey: Adventures in Cooking

January 20, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Every now and then it’s important to venture out of the writing cave and do some other creative pursuit. In this case, I thought I’d try cooking. So, before I go any further, let me explain that I’m not the cook in my household. My hubby is. Except for days he has to work late. […]

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The Writing Journey: A Day In The Life

December 28, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer Writing a novel (at least for me) is never a straight line. There are lots of false starts, going backwards, […]

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The Story Behind The Story: “This Happened to Jessica”

November 23, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Years and years ago, the idea behind It Began With a Lie flickered into life. The premise of a book, returning to a childhood home that may also be haunted, ended up, well, haunting me for decades. I shared the story around how I finally got myself to sit down and write It Began With […]

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The Writing Journey: Sometimes You Have to Regroup (plus, an update on “This Happened to Jessica”)

October 5, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 5 Comments

In the book “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamont, there’s a funny scene about writers accepting criticism. I’m paraphrasing here, but she describes how she has friends who read drafts of her books and then call her to give her feedback. She talks about how great it is that they’ve taken the time to thoughtfully […]

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The Story Behind the Story: “It Began With a Lie”

September 7, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 6 Comments

When I started It Began With a Lie, the timing was anything but convenient. It was March of 2015. If you’ve been following my Writing Journey series, you’ll notice that was roughly midpoint between when I sat in ICU alone with my mother, convinced it was her last day on earth, and when she actually […]

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The Writing Journey: Breakdown #2

August 24, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 5 Comments

It was September, 2014. My mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer in 2012, was in Intensive Care in the hospital. “Come now,” my father had said on the phone. So, of course, I did. And, that was the beginning of my week in ICU hell. My mother was on a breathing tube, so she […]

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Now available for preorder! Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother’s room in the middle of the night and discovered a figure abducting him. Except his lifeless body was still in the crib. Or was it?

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Available to preorder for an Aug. 18, 2022 release! Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back. Can Charlie get to the bottom of what happened and why?

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