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Rod Collins Writer's block: work on something else; relax; go fishing; read a good book.…moreWriter's block: work on something else; relax; go fishing; read a good book.(less)
Rod Collins I like story telling. And I like the solitude and the time spent with my characters. At times, the characters just take a story over, and then I chase…moreI like story telling. And I like the solitude and the time spent with my characters. At times, the characters just take a story over, and then I chase after them as fast as I can.

Most of the characters in my stories are fashioned after people I've known and admired, so it's a way of being in touch again. The weak and evil characters in my books are also based on people I've known, sad to say.

And sometimes, I just amuse the heck out of myself as I pound away on the keyboard. If I read the story aloud to my patient wife and she is amused also, then I count that bit of writing as a success. (less)
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A Well Turned Phrase

The first lines of an old cowboy song, "The Zebra Dun," say this: "We were camped on the plains at the head of the Cimarron, When along came a stranger and stopped to arger (argue) some."

That's as original as it gets. "And stopped to argue some" has stuck with me for many years.

Another I like is from "The Camas Place" by Alex Lafollette. Windy Bonner, one of the main characters in the tale is des Read more of this blog post »
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“why is most of the evil of this world the work of men? I suppose there are a few evil women, but they are a rarity, and I can’t say I ever met one.”
Rod Collins, Bitter's Run: An Oregon Trail Adventure

“the heathen redskins.”
Rod Collins, Bitter's Run: An Oregon Trail Adventure

“Ninety percent would arrive safely. According to historians, a best guess is that about one percent, 1,000 of the immigrants, were killed by Indians, which consigns the remaining 9,000 fatalities to accident and disease.”
Rod Collins, Bitter's Run: An Oregon Trail Adventure

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