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July 27, 2009 By bakerkline

Ode on a Monday Morning

Unlocking the Forest“To have begun is to be half-done;

dare to know; start!”

— Horace

(Thanks to Tasha O’Neill for her image of a doorway at the Rockefeller Gardens in Seal Harbor, Maine,“Unlocking the Forest.”)

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: beginning, best-laid plans, creative process, Discipline, fiction writing, Horace, Inspiration, Maine, Tasha O'Neill, Thoughts, writing a novel

COMING MAY 2026: THE FOURSOME

A literary historical novel set in Civil War-era North Carolina, based on a true family story and told from the perspective of Sarah Bunker, one of two sisters who married Chang and Eng, the famous conjoined twins…learn more

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