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Learning How to Be a Kind Person… by Phyllis Zimbler Miller

Learning How to Be a Kind Person Takes a Whole Lifetime. This thought – “Learning how to be a kind person takes a whole lifetime” – popped into my head, although I don’t know what triggered the thought. Yet the more I pondered it, the more I wanted to write about it. My first reflection was that my parents taught …

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How Has the Pandemic Changed Us by Phyllis Zimbler Miller

Recently an interviewer asked me how I thought the pandemic had changed me. I don’t remember how I answered, although afterwards I thought about this question both as applying to individuals and to writers. As individuals we probably have many different answers, perhaps ranging from becoming more aware of our actions (wearing masks) to what we can do by ourselves …

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Getting Historical Facts Correct by Phyllis Zimbler Miller

As writers we know that sometimes things in our writing can interrupt the “fictive dream” as John Gardner discusses in his classic book THE ART OF FICTION. For example, this can be an unfamiliar word rather than a familiar one, the deciphering of which pulls readers’ concentration from the story. For me, the most upsetting instances of interrupting the “fictive …

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller – Kindness of Strangers All Year Round

I learned from the Beverly Hills Courier on February 11, 2021, about National Kindness Week (February 15-21), of which I had not been previously aware. Yet I had already been contemplating my March guest post on the topic of the kindness of strangers, encouraged even more so by Bob Greene’s February 12, 2021, Wall Street Journal article “The Kindness of …

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller – YA Novel THE ASSIGNMENT: Encouraging Young People to Speak Up

Some of you may know of my free nonfiction Holocaust theater project THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE to combat anti-Semitism and hate. The project has been developed to educate teens about the past (the Holocaust) and to encourage these teens to speak up for what is right today. Thus I was very excited when I came across an article on …

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller – Learning From History

Learning From History Part II: What the Holocaust Can Teach Us for Today In my initial post last month for my re-appearance on Joylene Butler’s blog, I wrote about movies as a way to learn history wrapped up in entertainment, discussing both the new WWII movie 1917 and the Norwegian WWII film THE 12TH MAN. This month I want to …

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The publication of my first novel gave me the confidence to admit aloud that I was a writer. Does that mean the day before Dead Witness was released, I wasn't? If you're enamoured with writing but unpublished, you're simply an unpublished writer. It's about gaining confidence and exploring your passion. I hope this blog entices you to do both. Contact me anytime. I love hearing from you, reader or writer alike. email: joylene[dot]butler[at]gmail[dot]com or or via social media.

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The publication of my first novel gave me the confidence to admit aloud that I was a writer. Does that mean the day before Dead Witness was released, I wasn't? If you're enamoured with writing but unpublished, you're simply an unpublished writer. It's about gaining confidence and exploring your passion. I hope this blog entices you to do both.

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