Showing posts with label Robert B. Parker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert B. Parker. Show all posts
Thursday, September 09, 2021

Shorties: Blog posts and Novels

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This week, I’ve been wondering about short books, books that weigh in under 250 pages. Some shorties are among my favorites –– Ross Macdonal...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Take a break to add tension

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This week has been a busy one. School kicks off, in a hybrid version, I published a pedagogy article , and got about 3,000 words of fiction ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Travel and writing, not travel writing

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I have the good fortune this week to be writing this post from Morgan Hill, California. I arrived Saturday afternoon, got my rental car at t...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Joys of outlining

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I equate being a literary agent –– and dealing with writers’ eccentricities (daily!) –– to herding cats. So I appreciate the work of my ch...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Pitch Perfect or Perfect Pitch

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This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how TV shows are pitched, and, subsequently, thinking of the differences between TV content and th...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Weekend Guest Blogger: Reed Farrel Coleman

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Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post, Reed Farrel Coleman is the New York T...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Inside the Cutting Room

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I’m in the process of tightening my work-in-progress, essentially streamlining a draft of a novel in a way that, in Edgar Allan Poe’s words,...
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, September 15, 2016

Three Starts

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I'm writing something new, something I hope will launch a series. I've spent a lot of time pre-writing. I have an outline I like (yo...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

WHO NEEDS RULES?

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“There are three rules for writing a novel," W. Somerset Maugham once quipped. “Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Anyone who...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

How Much Fiction is Fiction?

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This week, I'm on a family vacation in Florida (see photos). The timing has been good because I'm 40-ish pages into my 2017 novel, a...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Weekend Guest Blogger: Reed Farrel Coleman

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I'd like to introduce the Type M for Murder community to Reed Farrel Coleman, who is making his second appearance as a Sunday contributo...