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Lynn D.'s avatar

I loved this book and loved the series. It's fascinating the way you channeled the story through the characters. It's as if they really lived and wanted to get their stories out. I'm not giving up on humanity because of the cruelty of individuals.

We have choices. We will always have choices.

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

Thank you, Lynn!

"It's as if they really lived and wanted to get their stories out." That's exactly what I experienced the 10 years I worked on those books.

We DO have choices, even if they aren't ideal. Keep the faith!

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Mishele Maron's avatar

I thought this was really fun. I read it in the car and had a bad internet connection.

I have been using the crone term myself a lot lately and find it very freeing. Cause damn if there is a point you just don’t care anymore if anyone likes you or what you are doing cause you like you.

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

I've been calling myself one for years--even before I was officially.

Crone on, Mishele!!!!

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Greg Olear's avatar

Excellent piece, Ronlyn, and an excellent novel. I shared.

>>"Fascinating, right, the collective (Western?) instinct to consume what we fear."

This isn't my observation, and I'm not going to get all the examples, but in the late 90s, in dystopian stuff, here were lots of images of tall buildings collapsing. Then 9/11 happened. Coincidence? Did we speak that into existence? Or were the creators just prophets of a kind, able to interpret the signs?

Now the dystopian lit involves teenage girls navigating through hellscapes, the grown-ups mostly dead of some plague. Yikes. But then, STATION ELEVEN is one of those, and I love that book because, unlike most entries in the genre, it is so hopeful and celebrates all the wonder of humanity.

Congratulations on the anniversary!

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

Um, well, either those books were telegraphing the future OR the thoughts that generated them manifested into these events, if one believes in such a thing.

If the dystopian lit now is teenage girls in hellscapes and adults dead in plagues (let us remember even I telegraphed with THE PLAGUE DIARIES, published in 2017) .... IS THERE TIME TO REWRITE WHAT'S AHEAD?!!!

Thanks for the congrats and, as always, your support! XO

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Mishele Maron's avatar

Loved this

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

Many thanks for your message, Mishele!

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Mary McMyne's avatar

I love this so much.

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

Thank you for the comment and being a tremendous friend through it all! XO

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Jupiter Leone's avatar

Thank you for this today. Much needed. Especially this: "I wanted my work to be something else, to shape a different kind of consciousness." and the Toni Morrison: “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

You're welcome and thank you! The Toni Morrison quote popped up again for me recently--so it's been on my mind. Can't wait to see what's next from you. XO

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SusanA's avatar

Your thoughts are encouraging and strengthening. Thank you. More and more lately, I feel the need to be FOR something, instead of AGAINST something. We all have a need for comfort at our very core. Since I am a reader and not a writer, it is not easy for me to express what I think and feel by writing a comment to you. I believe that you can intuit what I am expressing without the need for a lot of writing from me. I hope you will continue your loving mission to remind us of the power of love and acceptance. A very dear and much loved friend who has long departed from this world once used the phrase "WOW is me", WOW being wise older woman. That she was! Every day I aspire to be a WOW.

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Ronlyn Domingue's avatar

Yes---FOR rather than AGAINST!!! I understand what you're saying beyond your words, and I thank you for it. I appreciate the encouragement for my work. What a great acronym--WOW. The world sure needs some excellent WOWs.

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