Showing posts with label Michael Connelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Connelly. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Making lemonade out of lemons, Part 497

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By Rick Blechta I’ve been thinking a lot about what it must be like to be sentenced to prison. It doesn’t have to be maximum security, just...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A grand idea?

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by Rick Blechta Sitting out in our backyard yesterday evening with my wife, discussing our weekend with our grandkids who were over for t...
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Thursday, August 01, 2019

Opening Lines, Opening Questions

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Thomas Kies’s terrific post about opening lines this week got me thinking. As I commented on his post, first lines mean a lot to me –– as...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Challenges facing the contemporary crime-fiction writer, cont….

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Rick’s excellent Sept. 18 post “ Is it getting harder to write contemporary crime fiction? ” has me thinking. He astutely examines the works...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Impact

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by Rick Blechta My wife and I have been enjoying the Bosch series on Amazon. I’ve read pretty well all Michael Connelly’s Bosch novels ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Christmas Lights and Second Drafts

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Christmas is upon us –– the season of good cheer, good food and drink, and time spent with close friends and family. For me, it’s also a tim...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

It never gets easier

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Writing never gets easier. Not for me, anyway. Not if I’m continuing to challenge myself. I’ve written the first 30 pages of a novel-in-pr...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Writing empathy

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I'm a six-foot-one, straight, white male, who 30 pounds ago was a college athlete, and am a guy who usually votes Democrat. The characte...
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