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August 17, 2012
Artsy Fartsy Friday - Time to Learn Something New!
The brand spankin' new school year starts soon in most parts of the northern hemisphere - think of all the new things kids will be learning. But learning doesn't stop when we graduate (I hope!). I think we should all make a point to learn all the time, but especially to delve into something new and different.
Since this is artsy farsty Friday, I'm going to suggest that all my readers think
Since this is artsy farsty Friday, I'm going to suggest that all my readers think
August 15, 2012
Writing on Wednesday - Am I In Your Book?
"Be nice to me or I'll put you in my novel."
(T-shirt seen at cafe)
"Are your characters based on real people?" I’ve been asked that several times recently, and since my first mystery, Drop Dead on Recall, will be released until October, I have to wonder whether the subtext of the question is, "Am I in your book?" Only a handful of people have actually "met" the characters at this
"Be nice to me or I'll put you in my novel."
(T-shirt seen at cafe)
"Are your characters based on real people?" I’ve been asked that several times recently, and since my first mystery, Drop Dead on Recall, will be released until October, I have to wonder whether the subtext of the question is, "Am I in your book?" Only a handful of people have actually "met" the characters at this
August 13, 2012
Mystery on Monday Dumps the Body
A Good Place to Dump the Body
by Sheila Webster Boneham
The high desert around Reno, Nevada, is at once beautiful, bleak, inviting, terrifying, and inspiring. It’s a place of austere beauty when the sun rises over the Virginia Range or sinks behind the Sierras, angling its light like a net to catch the finely nuanced and shifting hues. When the sun glares straight down and even the shadows
August 10, 2012
Artsy Fartsy Friday Howls With the Wolves
Close Encounters of the Lupine Kind
"The Three Amigos." ©Sheila Boneham
Wolves have always fascinated me, as they do many people. When I was in grade school, we "studied" Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" in music class. I loved the music, loved that the different instruments made the voices of the different characters distinct. I especially loved Sasha the duck, and his oboe
"The Three Amigos." ©Sheila Boneham
Wolves have always fascinated me, as they do many people. When I was in grade school, we "studied" Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" in music class. I loved the music, loved that the different instruments made the voices of the different characters distinct. I especially loved Sasha the duck, and his oboe
August 7, 2012
Writing on Wednesday Guest ~ NC Author Georgia Ann Mullen on the True Value of Good Criticism
Today I'd like to welcome North Carolina historial novelist Georgia Ann Mullen,
who talks about the value of constructive criticism from her writing group. This post originally ran last May, but I'm on a brief blog break while I finish the sequel to Drop Dead on Recall (coming this October!), and good posts are worth rereading. ~ Sheila
The True Value of Good Criticism
by Georgia
who talks about the value of constructive criticism from her writing group. This post originally ran last May, but I'm on a brief blog break while I finish the sequel to Drop Dead on Recall (coming this October!), and good posts are worth rereading. ~ Sheila
The True Value of Good Criticism
by Georgia
August 5, 2012
Never Thought I Could Tell a Story
Mysterious Mondays
Never Thought I Could Tell a Story
Aspiring writers, like aspirers everywhere, often want short cuts to success, whether they define "success" as finding a publisher, winning an award, making the best-seller list, raking in the big bucks, or just completing the book or story or article. There may be some short cuts out there, and no doubt we can all
Never Thought I Could Tell a Story
Aspiring writers, like aspirers everywhere, often want short cuts to success, whether they define "success" as finding a publisher, winning an award, making the best-seller list, raking in the big bucks, or just completing the book or story or article. There may be some short cuts out there, and no doubt we can all
August 2, 2012
Artsy Fartsy Friday ~ Creative Synergy
Creative Synergy
by Sheila Boneham
Creative people tend to be creative in multiple ways. Most of my writer friends, for instance, pursue other creative activities when they’re not writing. Several of them make jewelry. Others paint or draw or sculpt. Many writers also garden – I’ve written several essays about the parallels between writing and gardening. Some sing or play instruments,
by Sheila Boneham
Creative people tend to be creative in multiple ways. Most of my writer friends, for instance, pursue other creative activities when they’re not writing. Several of them make jewelry. Others paint or draw or sculpt. Many writers also garden – I’ve written several essays about the parallels between writing and gardening. Some sing or play instruments,
July 31, 2012
Writing on Wednesday! Writers Read
Writers Read
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~ Stephen King
We’ll be talking a lot about writing here, but I’m going to launch the Wednesday feature of my new "Writers and Other Animals" blog with some comments on reading. Why? Because serious writers read, and read a lot – not just in terms of quantity, but in terms of variety,
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~ Stephen King
We’ll be talking a lot about writing here, but I’m going to launch the Wednesday feature of my new "Writers and Other Animals" blog with some comments on reading. Why? Because serious writers read, and read a lot – not just in terms of quantity, but in terms of variety,
