Saturday, August 04, 2018

Weekend Guest Tracy Clark

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I'm delighted to welcome Tracy Clark, this weekend's guest blogger. Tracy's novel Broken Places , featuring former Chicago ...
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Thursday, August 02, 2018

Making gerunds history: tips from a summer spent revising

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I’ve spent the past two months “streamlining.” Given a free moment here and there, I’ve reworked a draft of a novel, re-envisioning the plot...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2018

The Artist Within

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Not really a huge amount of time today so I thought I’d share some things I’ve seen recently you all might enjoy. I believe there’s an art...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

We authors owe a great debt to Judith Appelbaum

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by Rick Blechta First, you need to read this: Judith Appelbaum, a Guide for Would-Be Authors, Dies at 78 Back when I was getting starte...
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Monday, July 30, 2018

Writers Gotta' Write

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Hello and welcome to my first blog. I’m extremely excited and honored to be joining the Type M for Murder family.  If you have any thoughts ...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Future Crime, Again

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My favorite stories are crime stories. I've binged on Forensic Files , Dope , Inside the American Mob , Casino , the Godfather trilogy, ...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Waiting for It

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I don't have a long post today because I need to get back to writing. I'm moving back and forth between two first drafts. The nonfic...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Life Intervenes Yet Again

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I was really looking forward to my upcoming trip this Wednesday from my home here in southern Arizona (where the temperature is 116º F ...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Hitting the road

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Barbara here. One of the great joys of being a writer is getting the chance to travel, whether it's into the head of a person very diff...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Please welcome Thomas Kies!

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by Rick Blechta Type M for Murder has a new member! We are most pleased to welcome Thomas Kies. Tom will begin work next Monday and altern...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

Working for Other People.

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I went shopping today. When I went to the checkout, only four manned tills were open, all with a long queue, so of course I went to the self...
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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 19, 2018

This week in the life of an American and an American Writer

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I’m away from home this week, on a consulting job in central Massachusetts, where I’m leading a workshop for a group of excellent high sch...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Characters On Vacation

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Apparently, my characters have all taken the summer off. Not sure where they’ve gone. Maybe they’re at the beach or they’ve gone to cooler...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Summer Reading and What's Hot Right Now

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Vicki Writing (not exactly as shown) Vicki Reading (not exactly as shown) Vicki Reading (not exactly as shown) Vicki...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

Writing as Play

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Reading Donis's post this morning reinforced what I was thinking about last night. Yesterday I was in New York City attending CraftFes...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Life As A Work of Art

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Cher July has been very weird, thus far. Maybe Jupiter is in Scorpio or Mercury is retrograde or Morning Becomes Electra. As usual, a l...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Maybe how to write a novel?

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Aline's posts usher in the week at Type M and they always get me thinking. This week's post about Muriel Spark's writing proces...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Some things to tickle your funny bone

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Okay Type M readers, I've got a HUGELY busy day (I’ll let you all guess why) and quite frankly no topic for this week’s post is leaping ...
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Monday, July 09, 2018

How to Write a Novel

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This year, Scotland has been celebrating the centenary of one of its best known novelists, Dame Muriel Spark. She is probably best known for...
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Saturday, July 07, 2018

Thomas Kies, Guest Author

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Type M is very pleased to welcome guest author Thomas Kies, author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series. The first novel in his new seri...
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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,...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Happy 4th of July!

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Today is Independence Day in the U.S. A time for eating, barbecues and fireworks. I’m not a huge fireworks fan. I’ve seen my share of disp...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

A suggestion on what to do when the words aren’t flowing

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by Rick Blechta I’m sitting in my studio on a beautiful summer morning. It’s cool right now and will be really hot later on today — as it’...