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Learning to Listen: How I Wasn’t Letting My Native Characters Have a Voice

October 24, 2016 / Kiersti Giron / characters, growing, My writing process, Native Americans, Paiute, writing
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I hadn’t been sure what was wrong.   This story-in-progress, my third full novel manuscript, has definitely been my most troublesome “child” so far. First, my heroine didn’t want to behave, taking months before she would even “talk” to me. (Yes, novelists hear people who aren’t real. But I don’t think you need to sign […]

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characters, paiute, writing

Music that Tells a Story—and Helps Us Better Tell Ours

January 28, 2015 / Kiersti Giron / movies, Music, My writing process, song, story, The Man from Snowy River, Uncategorized, writing
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  The other evening, my parents watched The Legend of Bagger Vance for their “date night” in our living room. “It was a good movie,” my mom told me afterward.   “Sounded like it,” I said, “by the music.”   It’s funny. I had picked up very little of the storyline from the bits and […]

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“Getting to Know You”: Creating Characters

November 20, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / characters, Fort Tejon, My writing process, Uncategorized, writing
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I’ve been getting to know some new folks the last few months.   In many ways, it’s like forming any new relationship. I have my first impression, and think these might be some pretty cool friends. I get to know them a little better, and see some of my initial opinions might have been off. […]

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“Apart from Me You Can Do Nothing”–and Why I Often Need to Be Reminded

September 11, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / Fort Tejon, fun, history, My writing process, Research, writing
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It’s been quite a week!   This past Saturday, I took a wee trip into the past—and the setting of my next novel—at Fort Tejon, California, with their monthly Frontier Army Days Living History event. I used the magic words “I’m a writer” and watched as the floodgates of the interpretive staff’s knowledge and even […]

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My Writing Process – Blog Tour!

June 30, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / blog tour, books, My writing process, writing
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Hello, reader friends! Welcome to this special Monday posting for the My Writing Process Blog Tour. You might have previously followed this tour with Norma Gail, New Mexico writer friend and author of the lovely new novel Land of My Dreams.  Read her post for this tour here.   Now, on to my part! I’m […]

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