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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:27:32 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Six Weeks: Haiku:
Sarah said, "Swimming at daybreak,we had special privileges.Forget walls and doors.Water is warmestwhen the air is cool with rainor with September.Sand deep and shifting,We mocked stability, weTripped over driftwood."
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:39:57 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Seven Weeks: Building Character(s):
Sarah said, "We are on day two of a cold, soaking September rain, the kind that stirs the earliest dead leaves to scatter on the sidewalk, the kind that stirs the earliest embers of autumn and of story. I am close to writing something new. I know because I am..." more
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:20:50 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Eight Weeks - Kindred:
Sarah said, "In eight fleeting weeks, BODY OF WATER, which is mostly fiction, will stroll out into the world, and a few of my secrets might seep out. Like, I have washed my hair with apple-scented hand soap and lied to teachers about where I did my homework...." more
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:29:26 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Nine Weeks:
Sarah said, "It's hard to believe school's already back in. Summer crashes into fall without regard for anything. Maybe there hasn't been time for vacation, or maybe you don't have your school clothes out, or maybe you're not quite back under roof just yet, but..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:21:14 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Livvie turns one!:
Sarah said, " My little Livvie Owen has been out in the world for one year today. In her honor, I will ask you a question. What would your dream home look like? Feel like? Smell like? Is it a house? A cabin? A mansion? How many rooms? How many people to fill..." more
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:29:16 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Ten Weeks:
Sarah said, "Ten weeks now till BODY OF WATER. Let me tell you about the first week in the campground. It was only an adventure, only another chapter in our fictional lives. We were raised to believe we were characters in books, taught that adversity was..." more
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:01:40 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Eleven Weeks:
Sarah said, "Eleven weeks seems like a strange amount of time to mark, unless that's how long you lived in a dome-shaped tent in the summer of '93. For eleven weeks, my sisters and I roamed Battle Run Campground, swimming, and storytelling, and roasting whatever..." more
Monday, August 8, 2011 6:31:34 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled My Not-So-Fictional Characters:
Sarah said, "Funny what makes it in, what stays out. Every little animal I've ever kept has made it, or will make it, into a book. Henry's there already, in the form of Orange Cat in LIVVIE OWEN LIVED HERE. You can meet Lola this October when BODY OF WATER..." more
Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:53:38 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Milestones:
Sarah said, "I started seventh grade from a campground. Battle Run Campground in Summersville, West Virginia, to be exact. It's a beautiful place, tree-shaded, lakeside. In fact, it's made up of a sort of sprawling peninsula, surrounded on three sides by..." more
Monday, August 1, 2011 6:04:45 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Camp NaNoWriMo!:
Sarah said, "This morning, while attempting to type "Camp NaNoWriMo," I managed to post a whole blog that was nothing but the letter C.Then, just now, while attempting to type "while attempting to type," I typed "tpyed."Then, while attempting to type "Camp..." more
Friday, July 15, 2011 5:18:46 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Stopping and Starting:
Sarah said, "Every time the bus driver slams on his brakes at a stop sign – I don't understand, he drives this route ten times a day, does he not remember where the stop signs are? Do they sneak up on him? Are they camouflaged until the last second, whipping..." more
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:27:15 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Unpacking:
Sarah said, "Things I found in my duffel bag while unpacking from West Virginia Writers Conference:-Six new pens, three new pencils, and 14 bookmarks advertising every type of book, from romance to murder mystery to picture book-One of my dress shoes. If anyone..." more
Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:44:57 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled The Class I Failed:
Sarah said, "How many minutes in my life have I spent staring through golden mist on a morning highway? I remember it being the most romantic, intoxicating feeling. At six years old, chocolate milk in one hand and crayon in the other. At ten, Coca Cola and a..." more
Monday, April 25, 2011 6:55:38 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Sasha's Voice:
Sarah said, "The novel I'm working on now is written partially in verse. More specifically, in incorrect verse. Sasha takes poetry forms and bends them just enough to fit what she needs to say.HUSHHere in the darkness,crickets call and night birds sing.I know to..." more
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:38:33 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Moving Day:
Sarah said, "The prompt (from Writer's Toolkit):Write about something you did that you didn't want to do.My response:I love moving day, and I hate it.I mean, I know, right? Everybody hates moving day. Everybody hates filling out change of address forms and..." more
Friday, February 4, 2011 1:39:07 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Two quick giggles.:
Sarah said, "1. "Customers who visited this page ultimately ended up buying ..."2. "In Gorillas. Edit categories.""
Friday, January 7, 2011 7:22:57 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Oh. THAT'S what I look like to other people.:
Sarah said, "Because my computer isn't working -- and neither is my car -- I've gotten into the habit of waiting for the bus at the local university library, where I can use a computer to work on my writing stuff. I only live a few blocks from the university,..." more
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 7:19:44 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled This time last year ...:
Sarah said, "I lived in a rural county and there was a blizzard on. Most of my days were spent in the office with the orange walls and blue gauzy curtains. The view out the window was of the preacher's house, giant metal star above the door, trampoline laden..." more
Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:14:30 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Blizzard of 09:
Sarah said, "Blizzard of 09bony dog chained by the tracksached for comfort we threw her a bonebehind us in the window the christmas tree twinkledrickety and frailone bulb blew and the whole thing went darkoff in the distance the train moved slowwhistles and..." more
Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:21:09 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled NaNo Check-In:
Sarah said, "Tell me how I'm supposed to get any writing done?I'm 33,000 words into my NaNoWriMo novel, and because I started it eight days early, I'm supposed to finish it by tomorrow. It's okay that I'm not going to make it. My definition of a successful..." more
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:47:58 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Revision Checlist:
Sarah said, "1. I spelled "revision checklist" wrong. First item on the revision checklist: Revise the spelling of revision checklist.2. You know how sometimes if you're at the lake, you can watch a storm come across the water, and you can literally see the line..." more
Monday, September 20, 2010 5:00:54 AM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled First Few Pages:
Sarah said, "I drove Jake to work at 4 a.m. Could have gone home after, but the air was sharp with autumn, and out in the world, there was internet and coffee. I've got everything I need: a coffee, a laptop, revision notes.Not doing much, except..." more
Sunday, August 29, 2010 2:28:52 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Launch Party Recap:
Sarah said, ""Emmett, I'm filming you!" my husband sing-songed, joking around with our four-year-old nephew."No you're not!" Emmett giggled ... before promptly flipping backward over the arm of his chair and crashing to the floor.This was only one of the many..." more
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:51:12 PM
Sarah Dooley wrote a blog post titled Five Weeks: Morning and Evening:
Sarah said, "Ember Goforth-Shook, who in a brief five weeks will tell you BODY OF WATER if you let her, worries a lot. She gets that from me, but not twelve-year-old me. I didn't start worrying till a year or so later, older and not quite as wise.In the..." more