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March 24, 2017
Movies Inspired Me to Read the Book
by Paul D. Marks
Reading—What authors particularly inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book?
To the second question, I’d say I have and can read some of the following while working on something, but I don’t necessarily do so on purpose. Sometimes that’s just what I happen to be reading at the time.
Now to the first question: I’m inspired by a lot of authors and a lot of individual books where maybe the writer’s oeuvre doesn’t hit me but they have that one book that’s a knocko...
Reading—What authors particularly inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book?
To the second question, I’d say I have and can read some of the following while working on something, but I don’t necessarily do so on purpose. Sometimes that’s just what I happen to be reading at the time.
Now to the first question: I’m inspired by a lot of authors and a lot of individual books where maybe the writer’s oeuvre doesn’t hit me but they have that one book that’s a knocko...
March 23, 2017
The Day I Dodged
It should be my day today (Catriona), but I'm handing over the blog to my friend and fellow writer, Lori Rader Day, as she celebrates the publication of her third novel THE DAY I DIED, the follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark winning LITTLE PRETTY THINGS. I was lucky enough to read TDID early on, and it's absolutely fandabbydozy.
So, without further ado, over to Lori.
What authors inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book?
Which writers inspire me? This is not sucking up....
So, without further ado, over to Lori.
What authors inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book?
Which writers inspire me? This is not sucking up....
March 22, 2017
Simon Says vs Chatty Cathy...by Cathy Ace
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March 21, 2017
Rule Breaker
What authors particularly inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book? BY RM
An author who inspired me some years ago, when I was looking for representation, is Louise Penny. Along with enjoying her Gamache series, it was also a matter of the permission she gave me to break some rules, or what I thought were rules.
Louise Penny proved:
Yes, I can set my stories in Canada, where I live.
&n...
An author who inspired me some years ago, when I was looking for representation, is Louise Penny. Along with enjoying her Gamache series, it was also a matter of the permission she gave me to break some rules, or what I thought were rules.
Louise Penny proved:
Yes, I can set my stories in Canada, where I live.
&n...
March 20, 2017
Inspiring Writers
Q: What authors particularly inspire you? Do you read them when you are working on a book?
-by Susan
I fall back to Jane Austen when I’m pushed to say who really influences my writing. That combination of wry wit, social satire with deft and utterly believable characterization gets me every time. How is it that every time I read one of her novels, I am caught up in a drama whose ending I know as well as I know the names of my children? To me, it’s magic. I’m not sure how she does it, but I rere...
-by Susan
I fall back to Jane Austen when I’m pushed to say who really influences my writing. That combination of wry wit, social satire with deft and utterly believable characterization gets me every time. How is it that every time I read one of her novels, I am caught up in a drama whose ending I know as well as I know the names of my children? To me, it’s magic. I’m not sure how she does it, but I rere...
March 17, 2017
Ernest Borgnine
Who is the first person who encouraged you to be a writer?
With beginnings like mine, and with the necessity to apply Hollywood-style spin to beef up one's bonafides, it'd be easy to tie this week's question back to some well-meaning teacher back in Chicago Public Schools who saw better in me than I believed lay within. Maybe she'd resemble Michelle Pfeiffer. Read from the classics and explain them to us in our own street semiotics.
Is it a Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio? Is it, really?
"So, like, K...
With beginnings like mine, and with the necessity to apply Hollywood-style spin to beef up one's bonafides, it'd be easy to tie this week's question back to some well-meaning teacher back in Chicago Public Schools who saw better in me than I believed lay within. Maybe she'd resemble Michelle Pfeiffer. Read from the classics and explain them to us in our own street semiotics.
Is it a Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio? Is it, really?"So, like, K...
March 16, 2017
The Significance of Setting in Noir
by Harley Mazuk
I’d like to welcome guest blogger, Harley Mazuk to the blog! A little bit about Harley:
Born in Cleveland, he majored in English literature at Hiram College in Ohio, and Elphinstone College, Bombay U. He worked as a record salesman (vinyl) and later served the U.S. Government in Information Technology and in communications, where he honed his writing style as an editor and content provider for official web sites.
Retired now, he likes to write pulp fiction, mostly private ey...
March 15, 2017
Kid, you’ll move mountains!
by Dietrich Kalteis
Who is the first person who encouraged you to be a writer?
I realized the magic of words as soon as I learned to read. It was Dr. Seuss and the Grimms and when I got a bit older I read every Hardy Boys’ story cover to cover. And I guess I wanted to write like Franklin W. Dixon. Books transported me to other places and times: Last of the Mohicans, Call of the Wild, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island and lots more. Then later it became Steinbeck, Keroauc, Salinger and K...
Who is the first person who encouraged you to be a writer?
I realized the magic of words as soon as I learned to read. It was Dr. Seuss and the Grimms and when I got a bit older I read every Hardy Boys’ story cover to cover. And I guess I wanted to write like Franklin W. Dixon. Books transported me to other places and times: Last of the Mohicans, Call of the Wild, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island and lots more. Then later it became Steinbeck, Keroauc, Salinger and K...
March 14, 2017
Encouragement can come in different forms
By R.J. Harlick
Who is the first person who encouraged you to be a writer?
A tough question. Oh, I know, the story is supposed to be that some luminary, some important person in my life saw promise in my early attempts and instilled in me a desire to become a writer.
Sorry, guys, I can’t think of anyone. Sure, I had one or two English teachers in high school, who introduced me to the fun of writing fiction through class assignments. I always enjoyed these forays into creative writing more than...
Who is the first person who encouraged you to be a writer?
A tough question. Oh, I know, the story is supposed to be that some luminary, some important person in my life saw promise in my early attempts and instilled in me a desire to become a writer. Sorry, guys, I can’t think of anyone. Sure, I had one or two English teachers in high school, who introduced me to the fun of writing fiction through class assignments. I always enjoyed these forays into creative writing more than...
March 13, 2017
Who encouraged you
Who is the First Person Who Encouraged me as a writer? From Terry Shames
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