Friday, July 29, 2016

Knowing When to Stop

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I love this week's topic. I'd like to share my thoughts about my muse. Unfortunately, I have a looming deadline. I'm trying to w...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

In Search of an Idea

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Donis here. In truth I am not filled with inspiration today, which is ironic since over the past few days my blogmates have been writing...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Characters and plot in search of setting

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Barbara here.Today I want to continue the fascinating topic of muses that was raised in Aline's and Rick's two previous posts. Aline...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Whither comes the muse? Or “capere musam”.

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by Rick Blechta Funny that Aline would be planning on writing her blog post on the same topic I was planning to use. Since we’re both disc...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

Motives for Murder

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What is your starting point for writing a novel? For me, it usually starts with a picture I have in my head: in Evil for Evil , for instance...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

Happy Happy Anniversary

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This week our blogmaster, Rick Blechta reminded the Type M'ers that our blog is ten years. I'm a fairly recent member and came in th...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Technical Goulash

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I'm nearing the 10,000-word mark of a new project that is very different from other books I've written for a number of reasons, the ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Poirot: From Page to Screen

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I love, love, love Agatha Christie. I’ve read all her books at least twice, and I enjoy the TV and movie adaptations. The version of A Carib...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

I can’t believe we missed this!

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by Rick Blechta Last week I failed. It wasn't until Wednesday morning that I realized I'd totally forgotten that the previous...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Newsletters and a Contest

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By Vicki Delany Frankie’s post on Friday about her newsletter made me realize that I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned to all you nice Typ...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Weekend Guest - Janet Hubbard

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Type M is thrilled to welcome our weekend guest blogger Janet Hubbard, author of the wonderful Vengeance in the Vineyard series. So pour you...
Friday, July 15, 2016

The Art of the Newsletter

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I have invited visitors to my website to subscribe to my newsletter. I have collected names and email addresses at book launch events. I hav...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Eavesdropping

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I, Donis,  am supposed to be finishing up the edits on my latest manuscript right now. My editor wants the corrected MS by the end of ne...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Formula, Schmormula

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Like John, I too saw the article about the formula to create a best-seller.  Like him, I've no intention of trying to follow the prescri...
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Saturday, July 09, 2016

Writing Fun in the Twittersphere

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Our guest this week is J.C. Lane author of the thriller Tag, You’re Dead , which just hit the shelves on July 5. She also writes myste...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Dog Days

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I'm waiting for the edits for Fractured Families . This is a perfect time to catch up on projects and if I were the right sort of person...
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Thursday, July 07, 2016

Best-sellers: A Formula?

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From the just-when-you-think-you've-seen-it-all corner . . . I stumbled across an article in the June 27 issue of Publisher's...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Wandering Aimlessly

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I'm in the "what the heck do I do now" phase these days. A week ago I sent in my edits for A PALETTE FOR MURDER. Those edits c...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Free at last!

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by Rick Blechta Up here north of the 49th parallel we have an insurance company with a very successful and long-running commercial touting...
Monday, July 04, 2016

Mixing it up on Cape Cod

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by Vicki Delany The explorers As a writer, I always like to mix things up. I like writing different styles and moods and in diff...