Friday, January 31, 2020

The Roller Coaster

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One of the best talks I've ever hear about writing was given by Wister Award winner, Win Blevins, at a Western Writers of America conf...
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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...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

How Cozy Mysteries Changed My Life

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Awhile back—don’t ask me how long ago because I’ve forgotten—I was on a panel titled “How Cozy Mysteries Changed my Life.” As you can guess,...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Accompanying your writing

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by Rick Blechta I’m still working on my promised post (more research than I expected!), so I’m filling in with this post idea instead sinc...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

The Movie 1917, Action, and Characters

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In my last blog, I talked about how and why you need tension to keep a story moving forward.  A week ago, my wife and I saw the movie 1917. ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Wokeness Killed My Favorite Movie

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On the off chance you don't know what "wokeness" is, it's viewing the world through the lens of whatever is currently deem...
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Just a Little Tummy Ache

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Thank you, Aline, for your post on Monday. You've given me another destination if I actually do take a vacation in late May (meeting up ...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

The Agony and the Ecstasy and the Agony Again

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As I (Donis) noted in my last blog entry, I have recently returned from a two week book-tour/family reunion to my native state of Oklaho...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

In search of a name

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It's two weeks since I wrote my post 'Ready, set go!' about putting my pen to paper and getting started on the first draft of m...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Pet Peeves

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by Rick Blechta I’m feeling ornery today, which means my planned blog on “character dangers” is postponed for a week. So there! This is ...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Name Your Poison

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I've never poisoned anyone. Even after I dropped the lemon meringue pie taking it out of the oven, and it landed on the floor, miraculou...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Fraud Mania

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What on earth is going on? So many times lately I have opened my email and been greeted with another warning of a scam. Last week, my ch...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Where editing meets my Mac Or a curmudgeon’s guide to technology

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I teach because, as I tell friends or young teachers I’m working with, I get paid to talk about books. What could be better? I also get paid...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

My Year in Books 2019

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It’s time for my annual reading wrap-up. In 2019 I read 108 books, 38 more than last year! Unlike last year where about half of my reading...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Can a crime novel have too much tension?

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by Rick Blechta As seems to happen more often than not, a previous post from one of my Type M confreres causes my well-made plans to chang...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

Tension

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I received this by private messenger in Facebook this morning: “Good evening, any idea when Shadow Hill will be hitting the bookshelves? ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2020

A New Year, A New Book, an Old Problem

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Happy at Magic City Books in Tulsa If you haven't been following the recent entries here on Type M, Dear Reader, you've missed ...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Ready, set, go!

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I've been amused by the recent posts by my fellow bloggers, all along the lines of Happy Holidays, here's what I did with the famil...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Robot Writing

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by Rick Blechta I began last year’s post with an article about books as works of art. That’s physical works of art rather than written on...
Monday, January 06, 2020

Ploughing the Field

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I'm so impressed with fellow-Type Mers like Donis and John who have gone on with their determination to write every day, no matter what,...