Beth Kephart's Blog

• Words in Motion

  February 2, 2008

  • Perhaps because I was one of those perpetually active kids—ice skating during winter days, playing kickball through the summer, racing my brother around the block, forever honing my tennis—I grew
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• HOUSE OF DANCE

  February 2, 2008

  • Moments ago, I finished my final read through of HOUSE OF DANCE, the novel due out in June.
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• Patry Francis Day

  January 29, 2008

  • Today I'm participating in the very beautiful movement to support a loved writer named Patry Francis. She's someone I don't know but feel I do know, and today is her day.
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• On Revising

  January 14, 2008

  • I spent today revising a novel I'd first-draft finished writing six months ago—moving through and identifying missing scenes, making notes about raw transitions, straightening the map of an imaginar
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• Are We There Yet?

  January 9, 2008

  • The question might be asked (at least I ask it of myself), how we measure our progress as writers. How we know if we are getting any better at this work that we do.
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• Infused? Suffused?

  January 4, 2008

  • I'm at work on an historical novel, deep inside old ads and guidebooks, old photo books and fashion books, memoirs from a certain place and time.
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• On the Brink

  January 1, 2008

  • My confession: I've been experimenting with form. Five memoirs into my career as a writer, I had despaired of digging deeper, I felt trapped by my own smallness, I felt ungraced by me.
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