Friday, May 05, 2017

A Writer's Mind

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When I was thinking about what I would blog about today, I kept going back to something that happened on Monday. This incident was both scar...
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Thursday, May 04, 2017

Ever Had One of Those Weeks?

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I have been incredibly crabby over the past couple of weeks. I don’t know quite what to blame it on. Sometimes these moods just come and...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2017

The care and feeding of writers

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Barbara here, writing from Iceland. This is a pleasure rather than a writing-related trip, but a writer always sees the world through the le...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

You’ve got to be paying attention

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by Rick Blechta Aline’s comment about everyone scribbling notes at one of the presentations during the weekend conference she organized r...
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Monday, May 01, 2017

Conference Time

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For the past few weeks most of my waking hours – and quite a few when I should have been sleeping – have been occupied in helping to organis...
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Saturday, April 29, 2017

A One-Star Review and Guns

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Like other writers, I loathe one-star reviews. I hate to get them, and if there’s a book that I didn’t like I’d rather ignore it and spend m...
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Friday, April 28, 2017

Serial Killers Begone

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The Beautiful Lizzie Borden Fractured Families required a serial killer. It was necessary for the plot. The murders were too bizarre ...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Going Places

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One of the great things about the crime fiction genre these days is that it is so diversified readers can both see themselves in books and e...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

SWAT On My Street

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I used to live on such a quiet street, so quiet that during the day you could hear the birds twittering in the trees and squirrels skitterin...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlist for 2017

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by Rick Blechta In case you don’t know — and that’s probably most of the readers of Type M — my novella, Rundown , published last year has...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

What Sort of Reader Are You?

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by Vicki Delany I got a chuckle out of this cartoon. What sort of reader are you, this chart asks. I am a variation of a monogamist...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

Of Notebooks and Chocolate Bunnies

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In the midst of my usual almost-end-of-semester chaos, I'm late to the discussion about how we keep track of ideas. But I did take a p...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Rough Justice

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Great-Grandpa Aline’s entry, below , got us Type M-ers talking about how some of us keep notes, in one way or another, of stories we’ve...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Politics and the Pen

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Barbara here. It seems right now politics is foremost on everyone's mind. As the world teeters dangerously closer  to war, as leaders r...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

And now for something completely different…

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by Rick Blechta As I said in the comment section of Aline’s post from yesterday, her woeful story of loss brought back one of the really b...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Losing the Plot

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I was so interested in Sybil's post about organising those invaluable random thoughts that occur to us and might even, one day, spark an...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

The Velvet Curse

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  I've had a lot of trouble writing this week. Oh that's such a lie. I only have trouble writing when I'm actually doi...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

A Shaken Snow Globe

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There are days when it hits the fan, when life leaves you feeling like your head is a shaken snow globe, and you want nothing more than a qu...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Keeping Track

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Right now I’m looking for a sentence. Not just any old sentence—the first sentence of my WIP. Sometime when I was working on the final edits...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Some things to make you smile

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by Rick Blechta It’s another one of “those” weeks and there’s been no time to think of a topic for a post — let alone write one. I just no...