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About joanneeddy

Writer living in North Carolina. Originally from upstate New York. I love my family, my community, and my friends, and embrace 'living deliberately' in the world, trying to make a difference. I have written an as yet unpublished book, The Call, an epic fantasy with historical fiction and folklore elements. My blog is for other writers, for those who love a good read, and for all who, like me, are looking to find and live their call.

Second Acts


F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”  I have been pondering that quote for a while. Certainly this was true for Jay Gatsby, the anti-hero of Fitzgerald’s most famous work, The Great Gatsby (1925). … Continue reading

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And Now You Know the Rest of the Story?


My mother had a thing for Paul Harvey.  She loved to listen to his radio broadcasts and in particular to the stories he told.  Harvey broadcast his own daily news taken from the headlines, filled with the foibles of humanity, … Continue reading

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Remembering to Whistle


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Getting A Toe in the Door to my Dreams


You all know the saying about what the three key things are in selling a house…location, location, location.  I don’t know about you, but the key for getting almost every job I ever got was in “who did I know” … Continue reading

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Making a Dent in the Universe


Steven Jobs suggested that we all should embrace a goal to “make a dent in the universe.” There is no question he did.  An inventor, creative designer, innovator, and marketing guru, Jobs succeeded in changing the computer industry, the digital … Continue reading

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Giants Among Us – A Tribute to Steve Jobs


As an epic, my novel, The Call, is filled with grand characters, admirable heroes and heroines.  As the military leader of the best cavalry in the land Lord Edmond saved his country, then turned his back on the tributes to keep … Continue reading

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Helping life make sense and making sense of Life.


Joan Didion said, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  But you don’t need to be “an author” to do … Continue reading

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In the Ashes of My Brothers – a 9 11 Remembrance of my service at Ground Zero


American history is filled with iconic moments that live forever in everyone’s memory. They change the course of events and drive our collective lives as a people. Some of you could tell of December 7th and Pearl Harbor. I can … Continue reading

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Not All Blogs Are Created Equal…


I don’t think I have posted this before but I happened on this when researching query letters… Nathan Bransford is a children’s book author and former agent. This site has great links and everything you ever wanted to know on … Continue reading

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How To Fill The Well


Ernest Hemingway said, “I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that … Continue reading

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