Monday, June 23, 2025

I anyone reading this blog?

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    I have sponsored blogs on personal web sites. I've responded regularly to blogs like Quora. The web page stats usually said dozens o...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Parents

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 Dad and Mom and Me Donis here. May and June always put me in mind of my parents, both of whom are gone now. Both Fathers' Day and Memor...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

A Sure Cure for Burnout

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by Catherine Dilts What do you do when you realize your creative energy is fizzling, not sizzling? Road Trip! My husband snagged tickets t...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

A.I.--the Digital Poltergeist

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 by Thomas Kies Last week Artificial Intelligence snuck like a digital poltergeist into our writing critique group.  About eight of us have ...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Get Your Focus On

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Life is distracting. There are the two-hundred television streaming options. There are the 51 million YouTube channels. (not hyperbole. I lo...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Creating Characters

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 by Sybil Johnson Creating characters for stories is both fun and challenging. I worry sometimes that the ones I’ve created are too much ali...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Sorting the Sites

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 by Charlotte Hinger Barbara Fradkin a long time of Type M' recently shared all of her frustrations with social media in a post entitled...
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Monday, June 09, 2025

Have you ever been to a murder?

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   Type M For Murder, right? So let's talk about one, a real life experience that looked like a murder but that turned out to be a natur...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Peonies and Pine Pollen

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by Catherine Dilts Warmer weather is finally here on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s not uncommon for us to receive snow i...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

Using Substack for an Author Newsletter

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The cover image from my recent author newsletter on JOY. Happy Friday, Type Ms! It's Shelley, and I'm going to share a little bit ab...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

What is "Real"?

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 For the past some months I've been working on two books at a time. I'm having fun going back and forth, but I've discovered it...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

People Watching and Persistence

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 by Sybil Johnson People watching and persistence. I’ll call them the 2 Ps. They are both important for writers. One of them gives us ideas...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Technically Blue

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by Charlotte Hinger  Oh yeah?  Just try spending a whole night and the rest of the next morning trying to print the right Amazon label.  I h...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Are those people astronauts or serial killers?

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 By Steve Pease When I was a civilian engineer for the Air Force, I traveled at least once a month, mostly to LA, Washington DC, Albuquerque...