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January 2, 2018
Coptic, anyone?
Happy New Year, everyone!
I was planning on doing a post on my favorite of books from 2017, but right now I am begrumpled and blutterbunged. (See my previous post on these and other fun words.)
For some unknown reason, I lost an entire folder from my desktop. Luckily, not my current WIP, but some important docs for something else I do. I can recreate most of it, but it’s still leaving me a bit
I was planning on doing a post on my favorite of books from 2017, but right now I am begrumpled and blutterbunged. (See my previous post on these and other fun words.)
For some unknown reason, I lost an entire folder from my desktop. Luckily, not my current WIP, but some important docs for something else I do. I can recreate most of it, but it’s still leaving me a bit
Have you ever heard Latin spoken?
by Rick Blechta
Like Marianne I took Latin for three years in high school. We had a very good teacher, but he really couldn’t speak Latin in a conversational sense and it certainly had no real fluidity when he did something like read to our class. The result was that Latin really did seem like a dead language to me.
At the height of the Roman empire, it was the most spoken language on the
Like Marianne I took Latin for three years in high school. We had a very good teacher, but he really couldn’t speak Latin in a conversational sense and it certainly had no real fluidity when he did something like read to our class. The result was that Latin really did seem like a dead language to me.
At the height of the Roman empire, it was the most spoken language on the
January 1, 2018
Happy New Year's Resolution!
Have you made a New Year's resolution – apparently, we humans have been making them for over 4000 years? I usually make the same one: to try to be more gracious. This year I have a new one. My resolution is to learn Latin, or at least relearn it. Latin was my favourite subject at school. I adored translating Ovid and Virgil and Cicero. I didn't carry on studying Latin after I left school because
December 30, 2017
Brooklyn Wars
Weekend guest Triss Stein is a small–town girl from New York farm country who has spent most of her adult life in Brooklyn. She writes mysteries about different Brooklyn neighborhoods and their unique histories, in her ever-fascinating, ever-changing, ever-challenging adopted home. In the new book, Brooklyn Wars, murder gets in the way as heroine Erica Donato researches the proud history
December 27, 2017
My 2018 Wish for You
Wishing you the best for 2018, from my house to yours
Donis here. Boy, 2017 was something, wasn’t it? I’m not saying what. I don’t use that kind of language (much). But it is almost over now, and we can at least look forward to a new start. Perhaps some comfort, maybe some healing. I hope.
Since my birthday falls between Christmas and New Year, the end of the year is the literal end of
Donis here. Boy, 2017 was something, wasn’t it? I’m not saying what. I don’t use that kind of language (much). But it is almost over now, and we can at least look forward to a new start. Perhaps some comfort, maybe some healing. I hope.
Since my birthday falls between Christmas and New Year, the end of the year is the literal end of
December 26, 2017
Looking back, peering ahead
by Rick Blechta
First, I hope everyone is enjoying a terrific holiday season, regardless of what you might be celebrating. Heck! With the way the world is right now, we could certainly all celebrate still being here!
A funny thing has been happening here at Type M. Last month we had a huge spike in the number of people who visited our page, 74,964 of them to be precise. That's a heck of a lot
First, I hope everyone is enjoying a terrific holiday season, regardless of what you might be celebrating. Heck! With the way the world is right now, we could certainly all celebrate still being here!
A funny thing has been happening here at Type M. Last month we had a huge spike in the number of people who visited our page, 74,964 of them to be precise. That's a heck of a lot
December 24, 2017
Happy Christmas
Today I hope that all of you are far too busy enjoying the blessing of being with people you love to be sitting in front of a screen reading this.
Happy Christmas and may 2018 bring peace, health, happiness and success to you all.
Happy Christmas and may 2018 bring peace, health, happiness and success to you all.
December 22, 2017
My Christmas Prezzie-Writing Advice Repackaged and Regifted
For this, my last post this year on Type M, I wanted to give you all a present. In going through my archives, I discovered this forgotten little essay that I first posted on Jim Born's blog way back a few years. So I decided to offer it to yuz guys. Enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you in 2018!
Jim has been after me for some time to contribute an article with writing advice to his
Jim has been after me for some time to contribute an article with writing advice to his
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Today I've been thinking about Christmases from my childhood and some of my most bittersweet experiences.
One Christmas eve my family (my parents and my younger sister, Phyllis) had gone to Garnett to visit my Aunt Aura Lee and Uncle Nappy. They had one child--our beloved Cousin Rosemary. She was the youngest of us three.
Roads were miserable in those days and as luck would have it we got
One Christmas eve my family (my parents and my younger sister, Phyllis) had gone to Garnett to visit my Aunt Aura Lee and Uncle Nappy. They had one child--our beloved Cousin Rosemary. She was the youngest of us three.
Roads were miserable in those days and as luck would have it we got
December 20, 2017
Christmas Lights and Second Drafts
Christmas is upon us –– the season of good cheer, good food and drink, and time spent with close friends and family. For me, it’s also a time to regroup: I’m between semesters and chipping away on the second draft of a novel.
No two writers work the same way, and finding one’s process is like discovering how to tie a tie: You can hear about how to do it, even see it done, but until you actually
No two writers work the same way, and finding one’s process is like discovering how to tie a tie: You can hear about how to do it, even see it done, but until you actually
