Sherrie R. Cronin's Blog, page 41
October 4, 2014
Everybody is shouting
I found a solution that works for me, and it was in my first book all along. Act like a telepath. Act like a good one. Every time someone new follows me on Twitter, I now try to read their mind.
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Filed under: x0: telepathy Tagged: communication, encouragement, introvert, just listen, marketing, mind reading, telepthy
September 25, 2014
Celebrating my family values
Tomorrow I will have been married for thirty-three years. I’m not quite sure how that happened … but here is a post I wrote exactly a year ago and it is even more true today.
Lo and behold, a couple who had started out as kids in tattered jeans had achieved the ideal of the family values crowd. So, does that mean that we have family values? Good question.
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Filed under: y1: favorite posts Tagged: empathy, family values, freedom, gay rights, normal, not normal, tolerance
September 19, 2014
How the light gets in
The office manager took pity on me and my minor attempts at interior decorating, and okayed scooting my cube out a bit so that the globe could stay. Lo and behold. Once the scoot was made, a small piece of metal kept the two cube walls from joining perfectly. I now have a crack in my walls.
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Filed under: z2: hope Tagged: doves, hope, improvement, light, music videos, overcoming, photography, songs in your head, workspace
September 17, 2014
My Secret Life
I know that when I arrive at the office in the morning, I look more or less normal. I’m a few minutes late, car keys still in my hand as I give the receptionist a half-apologetic wave and head back to the small cubicle that is my home for about nine hours a day, four days a week. I fire up my computer, get some coffee, and start to do the things I am paid to do. It’s not so bad. The work is mildly entertaining, the pay is good, the coffee acceptable. I do hate the windowless cube, but I’m luckier that most. I have a secret life.
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Filed under: c3: favorite posts, writing Tagged: book reviews, causes, encouragement, happiness, human trafficking, identity, normal, not normal, secret life, speculative fiction, world
September 14, 2014
Writing about Superpowers
Each of my books concerns a character with a different superpower, and each time I have struggled to invent ways in which the power doesn’t work. It turns out that the abnormal abilities are fun, but it’s those limitations that make for a good story
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Filed under: c3: out of body, writing, x0: telepathy, y1: shape shifting, z2: time Tagged: out of body, shape changers, super powers, superheroes, telepathy, time altering
September 12, 2014
Wearing many hats well
There is the wild creative hat that yields stories at traffic lights and helps me type with a manic fury when the ideas just won’t stop coming long after I should have gone to bed. I love that hat, and I wear it whenever I can. Then there is the careful, tidy little headpiece that I wear when I proofread, edit, rewrite, add links, check everything and check it twice again. What? The font for the chapter five title is twelve not fourteen point? How did this happen?
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Filed under: writing Tagged: be better, books, free, introvert, marketing, sales, writing, writing style
September 1, 2014
Seldom does anything bad come from dancing
Every so often my characters surprise me with their wisdom. I’ll be writing away, happily trying to convey some occurrence crucial to my plot, and one of them will interrupt the action with a remark that causes me to pause and wonder where that came from.
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Filed under: y1: favorite posts Tagged: dancing, encouragement, enemies talking, joy, laughing, Teaching Tolerance
August 27, 2014
The day the music died ….. it didn’t.
Sometime in late 2010, my husband dropped his iPod in the toilet. It fell out of his pocket and I never asked for details because frankly I did not want to hear them.
Fall of 2010 wasn’t so great at our house. We also lost Pebble, our cockatiel who’d been with us for twelve years. Pebble used to walk around on my shoulder and sing along with my husband and between the two losses there was far less music in our home for awhile.
The day the music died ….. it didn’t
Filed under: z2: favorite posts Tagged: coincidence, happy songs, loss, memories, musics, pets
August 25, 2014
Who do you think you are?
Lately I have been absorbed by the idea that each of us is less an entity and more a sort of probability cloud… Let’s face it, we are each kind of sort of a certain way, but not always, and never completely.
Filed under: y1: favorite posts Tagged: atoms, future, identity, metaphysical, particle physics, physics, probability, quantum mechanics
August 24, 2014
“To Say Nothing of the Dog” and what I learned from Connie Willis
So it was a big deal a few weeks ago when I finished d4 and left for a two week vacation with my family and decided that after almost four years it was high time I read a book for the sheer fun of it. I chose Connie Willis’ “To Say Nothing of the Dog”. What could provide more vacation reading pleasure than a book described as a “comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel.” Too bad I did not enjoy the book.
via “To Say Nothing of the Dog” and what I learned from Connie Willis
Filed under: z2: time Tagged: book reviews, novel, speculative fiction, time, time altering, time travel
