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Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Try Seasonal

by Charlotte Hinger I have a neighbor who goes all out for Halloween. Their display is enormous. I'm intrigued by the figures every yea...

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Never let the truth...

...get in the way of a good story. Mark Twain Fiction requires the suspension of disbelief. If we pick up an epic fantasy, we have no prob...

Monday, June 26, 2023

Love a Good MacGuffin!!!

by Thomas Kies In his last blog, Mario Acevedo mentioned a story device called a MacGuffin. What exactly is a MacGuffin? The term origina...

Monday, October 25, 2021

Do You Know the MacGuffin man?

Let's talk about the MacGuffin. For those unacquainted with the term, it's one Alfred Hitchcock used often and an approach of which ...

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Our deal with the devil

I just received a new Samsung smartphone. It replaces the iPhone I've had for many years and was so out-of-date that I couldn't down...

Saturday, January 27, 2018

I be the teacher

When I first got published way back in 2006, I looked for opportunities to share what I'd learned both to promote myself as an author an...

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