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November 19, 2016
Obstacles and Creating Suspense in Fiction, or “The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis
What would it be like to travel back in time in Oxford, England to the Middle Ages? A young historian finds out in The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. The “present” is December 2054. The young historian, Kivrin Engle, is … Continue reading →
November 13, 2016
Made America Great Again
Ty squatted to paw through the wastebasket’s contents before emptying it into his giant gray thick plastic barrel on wheels. Rich people threw everything away. He’d found treasures in their wastebaskets sometimes. One night, he found a brand new children’s … Continue reading →
November 5, 2016
Why write?
This has been a rough and stormy year for my writing. My goals in January now strike me as over-ambitious and without consideration of my need to pay bills. I miss my writing life, i.e. when I wasn’t working for … Continue reading →
October 30, 2016
How do you find your next read?
Good question. A co-worker saw me reading during my lunch break last week and asked what the book was. He was looking for something to read. Then I saw this Roz Morris post at Nail Your Novel, and I’m thinking … Continue reading →
October 22, 2016
Venerable Conductors
Evan Quinn, protagonist of the Perceval series, earns his living as a symphony orchestra conductor. As a result of his choice of profession, I researched conductors, conducting, and everything related to them for several years. One of the conductors I … Continue reading →
October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan!
News this morning that Minnesotan Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature! My first reaction was to laugh in delight. Yes, he is known for the poetry of his lyrics. This afternoon, I passed the side of … Continue reading →
October 8, 2016
Writing Roots?
Amanda Webster over at Write on the World wrote this week about her familial writing roots. While I read her post, I thought about my non-existent writing roots. I’m a little envious that Amanda lived with writers and storytellers in … Continue reading →
October 1, 2016
Writing Tools
What do you use to write? Pen and paper? Typewriter? Computer? Individual writers develop their individual preferences for writing tools. And then there is caring for those tools so that they remain in optimal condition. During the last few weeks, … Continue reading →
September 26, 2016
Living in a Narrative Culture
During this last week while I’ve juggling several different aspects of my life and making myself exhausted and frustrated, I’ve been pulled by memories every which way. The stories of my life. Moments of clarity, moments of pure joy like … Continue reading →
September 18, 2016
Writing Sex
During the last week, I’ve been reading a thriller written in the early 1980’s by Ken Follett entitled The Key to Rebecca. I’d read his The Eye of the Needle when it first was published and loved it. Follett had … Continue reading →
