Showing posts with label Lizzie Stuart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lizzie Stuart. Show all posts
Friday, August 18, 2023

Someone to Root For

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  As I often do, I am reading books about writing as I work on my next book. Since I have multiple points of view and several primary charac...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Writing Scenes

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Like most writers I am always interested in the processes used by other writers. Since I started working on my 1939 historical thriller I...
Friday, January 21, 2022

About Titles

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 Frankie here. Sorry to have missed my last Friday post. 2022 started before I got around to setting up the calendar that I intended to do t...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

Upcoming Events

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 I finally got my Friday right. With the beginning of spring semester and half a dozen other things happening, I've been lagging behind ...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Not Being There

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As Barbara noted in her post on Wednesday, one of the challenges of writing during a pandemic is not being able to do field research. Ev...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Characters and Their Lives

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I'm finally coming up for air after spending the week racing ahead of a deadline. I've been thinking about the questions about chara...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Places Remembered

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I've been thinking about setting -- particularly in the wake of the fire at Notre Dame. I was in Paris for the second time a few years a...
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Friday, March 22, 2019

Walking the Line

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Frankie here. I've been chuckling through my colleagues posts this week. In empathy, not superiority. I just left a comment apologizing ...
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Friday, February 08, 2019

About the Villain

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I intended writing about something else today, but what Donis wrote about villains yesterday got me thinking. I'm dealing with that is...
Friday, December 14, 2018

How My Characters Will Spend the Holidays

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It's 11 days before Christmas, And not a gift has been bought. No decorations are hanging, No tree has gone up, But the writer is pl...
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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, March 23, 2018

Not There Research . . . and a Question

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I've been following the discussion about research and setting, and it reminded me once again of the dilemma I've created for myself....
Friday, March 09, 2018

Recurring Themes

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Barbara's post on Wednesday about the recurring themes in her body of work reminded me of my own endeavor. Over the past several months,...
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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, 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, December 16, 2016

Holidays with My Characters

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Posts from Rick, Barbara, and Aline about holiday customs got me thinking about Christmas when I was a child. I grew up in Virginia, and my ...
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Three Days in Santa Fe

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As are my fellow bloggers, I'm still trying to regain my equilibrium. I had planned to fly to Santa Fe last Wednesday to do some researc...
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Friday, November 04, 2016

Time and Setting

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"Well, let me catch you up. It's now later the same afternoon. . ." That's what Blanche on The Golden Girls says when D...
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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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