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The Help, Kathryn Stockett

Tricia Lott Williford June 25, 2012 9 Comments

Write a brief essay about a piece of literature that changed your life. I like to think I read Kathryn [...]

Lost in Translation

Tricia Lott Williford June 20, 2012 4 Comments

Publishing is a kind of psychology. Publishers, editors and agents think on a realm that far exceeds word count, pages, [...]

Wide, Gracious Margin

Tricia Lott Williford June 13, 2012 4 Comments

Have you ever read a book so good that it transports you to a different place? Science fiction will do [...]

Optimal Distance

Tricia Lott Williford May 25, 2012 No Comments

It’s like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you’re out. You don’t know how you’ll answer the door [...]

Petunias: Part III of III

Tricia Lott Williford May 17, 2012 9 Comments

I am reading Spiritual Rhythm, by Mark Buchanan. (Brilliant. Read it, please.) I started reading last summer, and I plowed [...]

Donald Miller is a Freaking Genius.

Tricia Lott Williford May 7, 2012 8 Comments

I attended Donald Miller’s Storyline Conference, and let me just say right now: You should, too. I have much to [...]

Existential Storytelling

Tricia Lott Williford May 1, 2012 7 Comments

I bought a new book, because apparently not one of the dozens of unread books in my home was quite [...]

Passion is Tricky

Tricia Lott Williford April 29, 2012 No Comments

“If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe [...]

So Close, Batman.

Tricia Lott Williford April 26, 2012 6 Comments

We were so close. I almost made it from the bookstore to the car before Mr. Almost Five Years Old [...]

Splendid Once Again

Tricia Lott Williford April 26, 2012 No Comments

Alone in my room, I feel the onset of alarm. I lay my whole body across it, to muffle the [...]

She Deserves It. So Does He.

Tricia Lott Williford March 20, 2012 4 Comments

I was forty when I finally fell in love with a man who was a widower. He’d been married [...]

The Driving Lesson

Tricia Lott Williford February 22, 2012 3 Comments

He took his daughter on a driving lesson. He had been teaching her to drive over the course of many [...]

Author. He said Author.

Tricia Lott Williford February 20, 2012 28 Comments

“I would like to represent you,” he said. He and his wife met me for coffee; he is the business, [...]

Vade Mecum

Tricia Lott Williford February 12, 2012 4 Comments

I always have a book with me. Physically and always, I have a book with me. I just learned there [...]

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