Tuesday, July 09, 2019

English is soooo confusing!

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by Rick Blechta Sorry about missing last week’s Tuesday post. I was on holiday and completely forgot it was Tuesday until it was Wednesday...
Monday, July 08, 2019

Category Error.

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At around fifteen months, children start wanting to sort things: the blue bricks here, the red bricks over there. Putting a red brick in wit...
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Saturday, July 06, 2019

Guest Blogger: SJ Rozan

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(Hi! This is Rick here, deputized by John Corrigan to introduce his guest.) We are honored to welcome our guest blogger this weekend, the in...
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Friday, July 05, 2019

O for Organization

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When I attended the Western Writer's of American convention last month, I had an opportunity to visit with David Morrell after a pa...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Painting without a brush

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Happy Fourth of July! I've always been interested in looking at how things are created. This happens in the kitchen. If you cook a...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Love Locks and Locksporting

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One of the things I love about writing is that I have an excuse to learn about new things. “I’m looking into it for a book,” I say. “I’m not...
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Monday, July 01, 2019

More on Plotters versus Pantsers

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I thoroughly enjoyed Warren Easley’s guest blog about outliners versus pantsers. Full disclosure, my wife and I had dinner with Warren and...
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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Guest Blogger Warren Easley

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Type M is thrilled to welcome Warren Easley this weekend. Warren is the author of the wonderful Cal Claxton Oregon Mysteries, featuring ...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Summer Time and Writing

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Barbara's post this week captured a bit of what I'm feeling at the moment. I'm having a hard time concentrating on all the work ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

What Would You Do If It All Went Away?

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I (Donis) have been preoccupied with tech issues today, so I'm writing this entry later than usual. One of our laptops is about to ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The extraordinary journey of the peony bud

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Rick's Tuesday post made me smile. Distraction is the mood of the day. Are we all in the same boat? After a long winter of record-break...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

This sort of sums up where my WIP is at the moment

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by Rick Blechta I’ve got a busy week on the go, getting ready to leave town. To say the least, I’ve been rather distracted. Then, in the m...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Alibis in the Archive

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Rolling lawns, borders full of lupins, peonies and foxgloves, the background of a stately Victorian building, good friends, good conversa...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Does Length Matter?

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I’m chipping away at my project at hand this week, following my 48-chapter outline (and adlibbing here and there) and found myself wondering...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Excitement And Fear

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Starting a new book is usually a mixture of excitement and fear for me. Right now I’m in the dreaded “why did I ever think I could write ano...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

A story in search of a location

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by Rick Blechta Once again I’m spinning off one of Tom’s Monday posts . You should read this one. It’s really good! Unlike Tom, I often ...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

How important is location?

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A long time ago, I picked Fairfield County, Connecticut as the setting for my Geneva Chase mystery series.  The primary reason was that I ...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

This and That

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I'm later than my usual late this morning because I wasn't sure I could get to the blog. I changed my gmail password, then tried to ...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

What Not to Do

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Donis here. I may have mentioned previously that besides writing mysteries, I have a side gig as a free-lance mystery reviewer for Pub...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

From zero to sixty and back again

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AKA the ebb and flow of a writer's life. There is a schedule in the lives of writers. For me, it is this. I have about a year to fiftee...
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