Showing posts with label 1939. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1939. Show all posts
Friday, June 30, 2023

A Cautionary Tale

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 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . ." You probably remember this opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. Tha...
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Friday, June 02, 2023

I'm Back

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 Better late than next time. I've missed my last two Friday posts. With the last, I was returning from South Burlington, Vermont. Luck w...
Friday, November 26, 2021

A Yawn-Worthy Hero

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 I, too, have experienced what Barbara wrote about on Wednesday -- those moments of wondering "Why am I doing this?" with all that...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Lessons to Be Learned

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 As I work on my historical thriller set in 1939, I have come to think of the year itself as a character. 1939 is an adolescent. He is torn ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

How to Begin

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Well, this day has gotten away from me. I remembered as I was heading off to bed that today was my day to post. But between an unexpected se...
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Friday, April 17, 2020

Settling Into A Routine

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Like everyone else, I've been trying to adjust to being home-bound. Yesterday, I tried my hand at making a mask so that I could go out. ...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Starting the Year

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Well, in spite of my best intentions, the last week of December and the first week of January zipped by, and I didn't get a lot of the ...
Friday, December 28, 2018

The Default Setting

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Sorry I'm late today. I'm getting a slow start because I was up late last night and slept in. Because I'm on intersession schedu...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Going on Location

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This week I went out to do location scouting for my 1939 book in progress. I went to Nantucket -- a fast turnaround of two nights and a day....
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Friday, May 04, 2018

Bad Girls, Bad Boys

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It's happened again. I've been seduced by my villain. The first time it happened, I was writing Old Murders , the third book in my L...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Distracted Characters

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The discussion about endings got me thinking about my series arcs and my subplots that sometimes extend beyond the current book. The romance...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Writing Different

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As I mentioned, this year I'm taking part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I'm not sure if I'm going to reach the 5...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Characters and Seasons

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Donis's blog yesterday about summer reading reminded me of what I've always liked about summer. As a child (student) and as an adult...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Thrilling in Slow Motion

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I have to catch an early train down to New York City. So I'm going to make this post brief and interactive. As you may recall, one of ...
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Characters, Ideas, and Settings

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The posts by my colleagues this week has been so thought-provoking, I had a hard time deciding what to blog about today. Characters who take...
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Friday, October 07, 2016

What I Write About

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Last night I did an exercise suggested by Donna Alward and Nancy Cassidy, the authors of an article in Romance Writers Report (RWR)* about &...
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Friday, May 06, 2016

Real People and Fiction

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I can't resist joining this week's discussion about the use of real people's stories in fiction. I have done it, too. Because my...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Writing in the Present and the Past

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Rick's post on Tuesday about the digital age and new technology struck a chord with me. I agree that as writers of crime fiction, we end...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Self-Discipline and Writing

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I'm frequently told that I accomplish a great deal -- criminal justice professor and mystery writer -- non-fiction and crime fiction. Ri...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

How Can I Use That?

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I may be speaking for only a small group of heartless, cold-blooded scribblers. But from the conversations I had over the years, I suspect t...
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