Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 190
March 26, 2018
Ten Years Ahead
Wish list for next 10 years of life:By Terry Shames
At Left Coast Crime last week I was on a panel that I instigated called It's Now or Never: Late in Life Authors & Protagonists. We were a panel of women who were either “older” when we started our writing careers or wrote books about older protagonists. Apparently the organizers couldn’t find men in that category—or at least not men who would admit to being older. Not only do I write a protagonist who is “late life,” but I am an (ah...
At Left Coast Crime last week I was on a panel that I instigated called It's Now or Never: Late in Life Authors & Protagonists. We were a panel of women who were either “older” when we started our writing careers or wrote books about older protagonists. Apparently the organizers couldn’t find men in that category—or at least not men who would admit to being older. Not only do I write a protagonist who is “late life,” but I am an (ah...
March 23, 2018
You Never Give Me Your Money
Make a bullet list of your ideal writing-related expenses. Must jibe with the themes of your books. And must be funny.
by Paul D. Marks
Jeeze Louise, a list of ideal writing-related expenses that must jibe with the themes of your books and it has to be funny. Hmm. I went to my Morey Amsterdam book of jokes but none seemed quite appropriate for a list of writing-related expenses. I guess I’ll have to wing it.
And since one has to justify one’s expenses, I’ve added a little description of each and...
by Paul D. Marks
Jeeze Louise, a list of ideal writing-related expenses that must jibe with the themes of your books and it has to be funny. Hmm. I went to my Morey Amsterdam book of jokes but none seemed quite appropriate for a list of writing-related expenses. I guess I’ll have to wing it.
And since one has to justify one’s expenses, I’ve added a little description of each and...
March 21, 2018
Essential costs for research...by Cathy Ace
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March 20, 2018
Wishlist by RM Greenaway
Apologies for the late posting.
My excuses are:
The new phonenew iPhone (yesterday)minor issues with new iPhoneplaying with new iPhone features (great slo-mo)celebrating new iPhone last night with some martinis and a game of dartsforgettingThe question this week is:Make a bullet list of your ideal writing-related expenses. Must jibe with the themes of your books. And must be funny.
I'll have to leave funny to everybody else, and be blunt:
If I had some rich patron cover my writing expenses I'd:...
March 19, 2018
Expense account musings
Q: Make a bullet list of your ideal writing-related expenses. Must jibe with the themes of your books. And must be funny.
- from Susan
A: My writing expenses are funny, mostly because I have yet to earn enough money to need the deductions. I just submitted my 2017 tax figurings to the accountant, whose laughter is doubtless filling his office. I can hear him now: “Listen to this, Murrry, $1,035 for a round trip ticket to France, hahaha… $22 for sausages at a meat market in some little town, hah...
- from Susan
A: My writing expenses are funny, mostly because I have yet to earn enough money to need the deductions. I just submitted my 2017 tax figurings to the accountant, whose laughter is doubtless filling his office. I can hear him now: “Listen to this, Murrry, $1,035 for a round trip ticket to France, hahaha… $22 for sausages at a meat market in some little town, hah...
March 16, 2018
Writing With Your World Rocked
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
I love facts and figures. It's been a thing of mine since I would read a volume of our partial set of World Book Encyclopedias in the kitchen as I ate cereal. I was the kid who held up the field trip because I read everything—and I mean everything—posted at the exhibits. That, and I was probably explaining it to some girl I liked. This is pre-World Wide Web so I would mak...
I love facts and figures. It's been a thing of mine since I would read a volume of our partial set of World Book Encyclopedias in the kitchen as I ate cereal. I was the kid who held up the field trip because I read everything—and I mean everything—posted at the exhibits. That, and I was probably explaining it to some girl I liked. This is pre-World Wide Web so I would mak...
March 15, 2018
Too Much of a Good Thing
From Jim
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
I love the bite of black pepper. But, let’s face it, too much of it will ruin whatever you’re cooking. I feel the same way about historical research in books. Any research, really. Unless the subject is history itself, the fruits of research should be the spice, not the flavor, of the story.
I write the Ellie Stone mysteries, a series set in the early 1960s. That re...
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
I love the bite of black pepper. But, let’s face it, too much of it will ruin whatever you’re cooking. I feel the same way about historical research in books. Any research, really. Unless the subject is history itself, the fruits of research should be the spice, not the flavor, of the story.
I write the Ellie Stone mysteries, a series set in the early 1960s. That re...
March 14, 2018
There is a line
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
by Dietrich Kalteis
Depending on the story I’m writing I may go about the research differently from book to book. I look for interesting facts and details that lend authenticity and accuracy, which allows the reader to believe the settings and what’s going on in the story. When I wrote House of Blazes, set during San Francisco’s earthquake and fire of 1906, I found a wealth...
by Dietrich Kalteis
Depending on the story I’m writing I may go about the research differently from book to book. I look for interesting facts and details that lend authenticity and accuracy, which allows the reader to believe the settings and what’s going on in the story. When I wrote House of Blazes, set during San Francisco’s earthquake and fire of 1906, I found a wealth...
March 13, 2018
A Tricky Balance
By R.J. Harlick
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
Though I’m writing fiction and could invent a world as fanciful as my imagination will conjure up, I do try to be as accurate as possible when it comes to writing aspects of the story that reflect the real world. I want my readers to be able to immerse themselves in my stories, without being rudely brought back to the real world by inconsistencies they know...
Research is a little like an iceberg. A lot of it doesn’t show. How do you decide how much research to put into your work?
Though I’m writing fiction and could invent a world as fanciful as my imagination will conjure up, I do try to be as accurate as possible when it comes to writing aspects of the story that reflect the real world. I want my readers to be able to immerse themselves in my stories, without being rudely brought back to the real world by inconsistencies they know...
March 11, 2018
Research--How Much Should you Use?
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