Last Updated:  Wednesday, September 1, 2010
MUSINGS OF A HISTORIAN

THE HOME PAGE OF AUTHOR MONETTE BEBOW-REINHARD

An adventure in history, culture, spirit & the environment -
come on in and browse.



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BROADWAY WRITERS GUILD in the flesh!
We're meeting every 4th Tuesday at Kavarna in Green Bay, Wis., at 7:00 p.m. - we're trying to start a writing revolution!

Is it true that writers write to be read?  And who likes to read?  Readers!  So the Broadway Writers Guild was formed to get readers and writers together to transform the quality of reading today.

Join the BWG as a writer and find readers to help you make your book or article ready to publisher.  Join the BWG as a reader and get free material to read in exchange for your feedback! 

Find more information at the Broadway Writers Guild at Facebook.
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FIND ME ON FACEBOOK - READ MYSTIC FIRE, THE NOVEL, SERIALIZED (As long as my publisher lets me get away with it!)
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For those who wonder what happened to my grimm1@bayland.net - I was having numerous problems with it - comes from not understanding Microsoft Outlook, I guess - so I deleted it.  My second email is now lizbethgrimm@gmail.com

NO!  It's not because I don't want to hear from you anymore, just in case you were wondering.

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You can have intelligence without having consciousness.
You can think without using instinct.
You can have consciousness without intelligence.
Instinct with consciousness makes you a formidable foe.
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NEW NAME FOR MY BUSINESS!
Finally, I decided to call my writing/transcription business
GRIMMS ETC.
Because when I was a kid and found out my Grandma was a Grimm, I realized I wanted to be a writer.
Grimms Modern Fairy Tales is one such offering.  It's going through another transition.  I decided to outline each story to take it to its bare bones and work it up from there.  An adventure in itself!

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Don't forget - buy a copy of each of my Bonanza novels and get a third complete novel FREE!  Cartwright Saga is an 8-story anthology novel free with your purchase of Mystic Fire and Felling of the Sons - use my contact here to buy copies of either book direct from me or to request your free book.  Also copies are available at www.amazon.com and www.writewordsinc.com - my first novel is also available at www.barnesandnoble.com so I expect the second to show up there eventually as well.  Thanks!

Author prices - get it autographed by contacting me direct!
$12 - Felling of the Sons
$16 - Mystic Fire
Postage additional - $2.77 for mailing media mail in the U.S.

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The problem with communication is the illusion that it's taking place.  George Bernard Shaw

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A great writer is worth nothing - if all he does is write."  Hope Clark

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Shakespeare said, "Nothing is more common than the wish to be extraordinary."  I guess I'm not extraordinary, after all.  Sigh.

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Writer Cyril Conolly said "Better to write for the self and have no public, than write for the public and have no self." 

I like this a lot - one of the reasons, I think, that I have a hard time finding an audience is that I'm an outcast.  I was born in the wrong color skin.  I could perhaps try to imitate the writings of others, just to get published.  But that would be like lying.  I hate lying.

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Spiderwebs in the living room,
Cat hair on the kitchen floor.
Toilet bowls need scrubbing,
but I have to type a little more.

A book that needs some editing,
a novel's hero without flesh.
More research books to read
to get it all to mesh.

Oh! a poem is calling
but I swore I'd clean the car
to travel to a funeral
which breaks my goals ajar.

An article now needs editing,
what am I supposed to do?
I'll do what any smart one does
and tear myself in two! 

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See what I have to offer on my new page - Hire a Writer!  We can do quickly together what you might struggle for days to get done.

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I saw this sign at a county park the other day - "Illegal activity is not tolerated here."   Where is it tolerated?

There are  different ways to win--there are just as many ways to lose.  You choose.

Imagination is writing.  Creativity is rewriting.

No Expectations

Just do it -

And let it happen.

 
Butterflies are nature's imagination.

Half of my life is an act of revision - John Irving.

 

Books are never finished - they are merely abandoned.  Oscar Wilde

You can't choose sides in a round world.

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