conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled GIRLS ON THE RUN about GIRLS, NORTH, COAST with the genre: Romance, Contemporary.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I have dreamed all my life about writing novels, beginning with notebooks passed around in the fifth grade in Speedway, Indiana. But my life has been busy and built of many pieces like a patchwork quilt. I started novels and quit; I wrote drafts and put them away in a drawer or a box. Not until I formally retired from working and moved to the Pacific Northwest did I find the time, the focus, and the inspiration to truly write. I finished NORTH COAST: A Contemporary Love Story , which I had begun in San Diego in about 2002, and in 2011 I began writing GIRLS ON THE RUN. There are two themes that are really important to me. One is finding love, which seems to me difficult because we bring baggage into all of our relationships and that baggage must be tossed, worked through, or resolved before we can truly love. A second theme is being true to yourself, a theme that is central to GIRLS ON THE RUN. We have to know who we are, and we have to love who we are--regardless of what the world thinks--before we can live fully. And before we can love. In NORTH COAST , I wrote mostly about lesbians and their love and support for each other. In GIRLS ON THE RUN , my two heroines live in a bigger world, in which families, friends, and employers play a significant role. Therefore, there are relatively few lesbian characters, even if the principals are by the final page involved in a love relationship. We laugh and cry with characters of all ages as they face life's challenges, and most of these characters are heterosexual. I think I was able to write this book this way because I now live in a community that has been very accepting of who I am, and in this environment, I have become more accepting of myself. Coming out of the closet is not a single process. It can go on for years and have many new stages and chapters. When I am interviewed as a 74-year old lesbian writer for the local newspaper and on the local radio station, I am "out" in a whole new way. And I am grateful for the opportunity to be "me" on a grander scale.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: But my life has been busy and built of many pieces like a patchwork quilt. I started novels and quit; I wrote drafts and put them away in a drawer or a box. Not until I formally retired from working and moved to the Pacific Northwest did I find the time, the focus, and the inspiration to truly write. I finished NORTH COAST: A Contemporary Love Story , which I had begun in San Diego in about 2002, and in 2011 I began writing GIRLS ON THE RUN. There are two themes that are really important to me. One is finding love, which seems to me difficult because we bring baggage into all of our relationships and that baggage must be tossed, worked through, or resolved before we can truly love. A second theme is being true to yourself, a theme that is central to GIRLS ON THE RUN. We have to know who we are, and we have to love who we are--regardless of what the world thinks--before we can live fully. And before we can love. In NORTH COAST , I wrote mostly about lesbians and their love and support for each other. In GIRLS ON THE RUN , my two heroines live in a bigger world, in which families, friends, and employers play a significant role. Therefore, there are relatively few lesbian characters, even if the principals are by the final page involved in a love relationship. We laugh and cry with characters of all ages as they face life's challenges, and most of these characters are heterosexual. I think I was able to write this book this way because I now live in a community that has been very accepting of who I am, and in this environment, I have become more accepting of myself. Coming out of the closet is not a single process. It can go on for years and have many new stages and chapters. When I am interviewed as a 74-year old lesbian writer for the local newspaper and on the local radio station, I am "out" in a whole new way. And I am grateful for the opportunity to be "me" on a grander scale.