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Magical Realism in Books and Film
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on April 4, 2016. Image above created by Stefano Vitale for Broadway musical production of Like Water for Chocolate. This is the fifth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “When you…
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What Magical Realism Is to Me
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Originally published on September 29, 2015. This is fourth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can’t hold on…
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Elements of Magical Realism
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on September 29, 2015. This is the third in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the first two, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and…
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What Magical Realism ISN’T
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on August 4, 2015 This is second in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often…
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What Is Magical Realism
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on July 31, 2015 “It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise . . . to such an extreme that no-one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate stew of truths…
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Rhythm & Rhyme
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In 2018, I created the Rhythm & Rhyme Workshop for writers who wanted to improve their rhyming picture book manuscripts. I’m now offering it free to any writers who would like to view it. You can watch each video below, though I suggest going viewing in order to get the…