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  1. Should creative writers opine on contentious issues?

    3/17/12 10:19am by nellewrites
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    Over the course of online involvement, I learned to discuss things of interest and importance to me, or things with impact upon my life.  The mix includes things good, and things bad, and I share a *cough* occasional opinion.No name mentioned here, but I recently visited an author’s blog, an author of many books, one well known to most regular novel readers out there.  One sentence in her words struck me as poignant.  Paraphrasing her words, she claimed it would be disastrous for an author to share an opinion on a religious or political topic.   Read more >

  2. French doughnuts

    2/25/12 8:52am by nellewrites
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    Me writing a foodie post, ruh roh and sheesh.The following recipe comes not from me, but from my aunt via my mother. Caveat: This is not a health food post. Since you don't want me to blather on about batter, the recipe: French Doughnuts1 1/2 cups of flour1/3 cup butter1/2 cup milk1 egg2 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder1/4 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg   Read more >

  3. in the park

    1/9/12 8:54am by nellewrites
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    Four arched Victorian windows overlook the park, the view from my second floor bedroom a three dimensional still life hung outside for all of my eighteen years.  Now, now, the imagery beyond the decorative windows feels sterile, bereft of the childhood illusion of across the street park as backyard and personal playground.  Read more >

  4. Planned Parenthood: an idea worth defending.

    12/15/11 2:31pm by nellewrites
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    During 2011, politicians, commentators, and others have spent considerable time throwing disparaging remarks at Planned Parenthood, usually including wild claims distorting the proportional mix of the services it provides.  Read more >

  5. Response to Four Difficult Questions

    12/13/11 5:51pm by nellewrites
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    In my timeframe of reference, i.e. 1960 onward, the way we dealt with bullying was by hiding in closets.  Over time and ever accelerating towards now, we morphed into a society encouraging of coming out.  The last ten years have been a whirlwind for those of us in the lgbtq community.  Hell, I met Denise just over a decade ago, and the difference between March 2000 and now… it’s a century later.Pause to make mac and cheese.  Back, it’s in the oven…  Read more >

  6. the writing is in us

    9/23/11 6:27am by nellewrites in How to Write (Better) Comments (6)
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    Wandering writing blogs, one common theme is writer’s block.  Most often, the author goes on to address sources of inspiration.  This might be imagery, a walk about in a natural environment or a city, music, or something more unconventional, like meditation or yoga.  Read more >

  7. story on film

    7/30/11 6:58am by nellewrites in How to Write (Better) Comments (0)
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    Few writers ever see their work published. Fewer still see their published work make the jump from printed word to acted scenes, whether live performance or recorded film. Yet, all of our stories already exist in imagery, we just tend to forget where it first played…  Read more >

  8. demise of the mega bookstore

    7/20/11 6:21am by nellewrites
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    Reading reports of a closing bookstore is a little like reading about the death of an acquaintance. It upsets, the upset driven by a stew that includes further evidence of our own mortality and reflection that maybe we weren’t quite the friend we should have been. When was the last time…?  Read more >

  9. why I started writing (fiction)

    7/15/11 7:11am by nellewrites
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    It was a warm and sunny early June day. I was on an interstate, travelling southbound after leaving my therapist.  Her office is in a mid-state town with a northern reach that touches the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  With an hour long drive, my listening choices were NPR, music, or sports. On that day music prevailed. When I listen to music privately, it means my mind likely works through an issue – or fashions a story. I’ve told stories to myself my whole life.  Read more >

  10. Writers talking shop: solidarity or solitary

    7/11/11 7:58pm by nellewrites in How to Write (Better) Comments (4)
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    Here on BlogHer, we have this writer’s group that sits underused in terms of activity, although I wonder if it is used at all in a passive, review sort of way. I frequent another site devoted to women writers of all types who wish to enhance and hone their writing skills. Each has things that they do well; to me, both sites are complementary.Yet if there is one thing I’ve noticed on both, it is how we interact on topics in the news, things like food, children, sex, politics, and on any number of other topics. What we don’t do is talk shop as writers.  Read more >

nelle douvlle

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nelle douvlle
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 

If someone asks me about my life, I can write a book. If someone asks me to write a brief bio, I’ll sit here and agonise over its construction, which is where I am right now, writing something up for BlogHer.

The basics. I’m fifty-seven years old and counting (slowly), a parent of two wonderful adult daughters, a new grandparent of a beautiful boy, unemployed and returning to school, a volunteer for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, an aspiring creative writer, and a recovering dysfunctional. Reading, music, online participation, being silly, and sports are things that occupy my time. Although I’ve not done them in years now, I love cross country skiing and sailing. My true passion, what occupies most of my time is as an aspiring writer of fiction.

That recovering dysfunctional sounds humorous, and I do joke about it because if I don't the pain and guilt would consume me. I can sum it up by saying I melted down in the early 2000s when I was self-employed and contending with gender dysphoria, and that combination was not a healthy one. The result was 21 months in a federal prison camp, released in March 2011.

I’m a graduate of Keene State and lifelong resident of New Hampshire.

Spiritually, I am a Reiki level two practitioner, and find myself drawn to what Sue Monk Kidd outlines in Dance of the Dissident Daughter.

Music is a passion, not in the playing, but in the listening. When alone, music has every imaginable effect upon me, and without it, I would probably not be around today. Play it loud, raise goose bumps on my old bones.

As mentioned, I am gender dysphoric, crossed gender lines at the height of my meltdown in 2003, and call the lesbian community home, the one place in my life I where I felt accepted by the community and a sense of belonging. The women of this community helped get me through what was a horrific time, and I am ever grateful and loyal in return.

Politically, I pretend to be a practical progressive and an avowed feminist, and once was co-host of the now defunct iVillage feminism board for close to three years.

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New Hampshire

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unemployed but looking

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Keene State College

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