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		<description><![CDATA[You both went from incomplete people to much more aware and fulfilled people by working in the bakery. As a reader, I love this inner arc, which shows your character’s personal development. This is one of the reasons I read memoirs, to see how people grow, and I’m glad you reflected that part of your life in the novel. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts, like Brian Boyd in "The Evolution of Stories" propose that humans began to tell stories as a sort of cognitive playground where they experiment with alternate scenarios. You seem to be the perfect model for that theory. In "Bread Alone" you turned your imagination loose at the boundaries of reality. So on your fifth novel, how has that connection between life and fiction evolved for you over the years? <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always said my career as a novelist began in a bakery, which seems appropriate, because the longer I practice both writing and baking the more similarities I see between them.  Bread is a process--slow, arduous, messy, unpredictable.  You can say all the same things about a book.  Bread is composed of distinct ingredients, that merge and become dough--a completely different entity which then takes on a life of its own.  A book follows that same process. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hendricks-interview-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Bernstein&#8217;s Second Memoir, Still Writing at 98!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jerry Waxler Harry Bernstein was 93 years-old when he published his first memoir &#8220;Invisible Wall&#8221; about his childhood in England before the first World War. His nonagenarian achievement changed the landscape for aspiring memoir writers who wonder if they &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/harry-bernstein-memoir-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What does Dani Shapiro, or any of us, really want?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dani Shapiro's memoir "Slow Motion" is a study in desire. When she enters Sarah Lawrence, one of the top liberal arts schools in the U.S., she is young, beautiful, and rich. Then, a man 20 years older swoops into her life, picks her up in his limousine and showers her with flowers. At first she is disgusted. Then she gives in, and starts taking more and more of his gifts. The problem is he's the step-dad of her best friend, he's married, and he's a liar. Every time he pulls another creepy stunt, I want to scream, "Run!" <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/dani-shapiro-desires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jerry Waxler Look at the sky. Then look again. Nothing changed, and yet everything changed. Ticks of the clock add up and after enough of them, the earth turns again. Day by day, you brush your teeth, wash dishes, &#8230; <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/your-character-evolves-through-time-memoir-prompt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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