Tag: Jaws (1974 novel)
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On Writing and Storytelling: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Revising Process
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, yesterday was one of those working days that starts off on the wrong foot, as in, “Oh, crap, I’m ‘blocked.’ I can’t think of a good way to start this new scene!” Yet somehow, it ended on a note of accomplishment because I surprised myself…
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Movie Watcher Memories, or: Mom Nixes Shark Pic
I was 12-and-one-quarter years old when Steven Spielberg’s Jaws made its theatrical debut on June 20, 1975 and lived with my widowed mother, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, in a house in the unincorporated community of Westchester in suburban Miami-Dade County. At the time, it was just us two living at the house on Southwest 102nd Ave; my…
