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Cameron Dryden's OriGenes, where stories come from, and where they go
Cameron Dryden's OriGenes, where stories come from, and where they go
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Category: Beginnings

The only thing worse than a bad beginning, is none at all.

Beginnings • Cam's Process

The Muse vs. the Plan, or Another Way to Begin a Story

August 30, 2018
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I’m not much of a planner. This is not a philosophical stance, just the way my brain works. I jump with both bare feet into whatever stream interests me. I don’t pick the best spot on the stream or check the speed of the current. I go. It’s only after I’ve experienced some of the…

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Beginnings

The Genesis of Cam’s First Novel

April 5, 2018
characters in Cameron's first novel

It’s tough living in a family of writers. It can make a person feel downright inadequate. My sister, Psychiatrist Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, published a book on infertility and one on developmental disabilities. My cousin, the former newscaster Naomi Pringle, wrote a couple of books chronicling my family’s immigration from Jamaica to the U.S. The book Freeing…

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