Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

When Kacey Musgraves accidentally wrote the theme song for my novel’s heroine

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Serenity's Anthem: Kacey Musgraves' "Dry Spell" Writers believe we make deliberate choices about our characters, but then a song comes on the radio and we suddenly recognize something we'd written … Continue reading >>

Instagram thinks I’m a mystic. I’m really a Sneaker Diva.

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Fashion in a Box: Instagram must think I need help. Not help-help, but fashion help. Dozens of styling apps fill my feed with promises to transform me into my best-dressed self or to reveal my … Continue reading >>

My 5 Questionable Superpowers and How They Mirror my Fictional Heroine

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None of them involve a cape! I may not have the power to fly or read minds, but I’ve developed a few, strange, human superpowers over the years that can also be seen as oddly comforting when you … Continue reading >>

To Name or Not to Name: Writing Fiction in a Real Place

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Welcome to Ocracoke Harbor

When Fiction Meets a Real Place Anne Tyler amazes me with how she writes about real places, Baltimore, especially, and yet somehow makes them entirely her own. Her fictional neighborhoods feel … Continue reading >>