{"id":18337,"date":"2020-05-22T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2020-05-30T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T19:26:52","slug":"the-universe-is-watching-carry-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/the-universe-is-watching-carry-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe is Watching…Carry On"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are no coincidences in life. The universe reveals your life path in mysterious ways. Every time I immerse myself in something deeply creative, like writing a novel, the universe sends me a sign that it is listening, watching… and it lets me know if I am following the right path.<\/div>\r\n
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I am trying to find an agent\/publisher for my latest novel Naked Under the Midnight Sun<\/em>. It is a long, exhausting process…the world doesn’t stop and wait for this to just happen; I have to keep slogging away while I try to accomplish other goals: i.e. finishing my PhD.<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Though, I know the universe has my back regardless of the time that has passed. In my latest novel, I created a Russian character who mysteriously moves to the Yukon and finds work on the northern Yukon highway. His name is Ilya. I also write about the Yukon ghost town, Forty-Mile. I do not want to write spoilers because the novel will be published; thus, I will leave it at that. Ilya is a major character and Forty-Mile is mentioned a lot in the novel. <\/span><\/div>\r\n
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This month, I received a letter from Ukraine by a man named Ilya, asking me to post pictures he’d found on my (this) blog about Forty-Mile, to a site on Wikipedia that he’s created about Forty-Mile. He told me he’s been obsessed with Forty-Mile since he was a child and read about it in Jack London’s stories.<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Ilya & Forty-Mile…it is as though the character from my novel has reached out to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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A similar thing happened while I was writing my first novel, Queen of the Godforsaken<\/em>. You can read about that in my post titled\u00a0Serendipity<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\r\n
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I know one thing, that regardless of my struggles, the universe has my back. It lets me know when I’m on the right path. Thank you, universe.<\/div>\r\n
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*picture is of my youngest daughter on Mauna Kea Beach, Hawaii.<\/h6>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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