Saturday, May 30, 2020

Guest post: Andrew Taylor

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Aline here. I'm so pleased to have been able to persuade Andrew Taylor to be our guest this week. He's famous for his historical c...
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Friday, May 29, 2020

What We Write About

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Should we keep the real world out of our books and short stories? Some writers and readers would argue that we should be able to "escap...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Pandemic Personality

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Oh, hello there! You startled me, Thursday. You shouldn't sneak up on me like that. Since this "shelter in place" thing starte...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Navigating the first draft

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Well, as usual in Canada, we have gone from winter last week to mid-summer this week, and all around us, nature has burst into life. Plants...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A grand idea?

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by Rick Blechta Sitting out in our backyard yesterday evening with my wife, discussing our weekend with our grandkids who were over for t...
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Monday, May 25, 2020

Zoom

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What huge lessons we've had to learn, these past weird weeks!  What new words have come into our vocabulary, what new skills we have had...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

The Days of Our Lives

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A running theme here at Type M, understandably, has been our reflections on this pandemic. For me, the disruption has been minimal. As a fre...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Bits of Fun

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Everyone keeps on talking about how much extra time they have these days. I admit I'm a little mad about this because, well, not a whole...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Too much time on my hands

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by Rick Blechta In these most novel of times, everyone has had to face new realities and new ways of doing things. Hell! We have had to ...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

Real World Tension

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In my creative writing class that I was teaching for our local college, cut short by the pandemic, I stressed the value of ratcheting up ten...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Under the Gun

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Hi Everyone, Hope you are all well. I'm grading papers with the clock ticking. I don't have time to write a post today. But I th...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

The Real Heroes

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It suddenly dawned on me (Donis) that it's time for my Type M entry. I'm amazed I remembered, because as far as I know, the date is ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Pandemic voices

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For weeks now, our Type M blog posts have circled around the central player in our lives - the pandemic. We have talked about the inability...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Sorry, folks!

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by Rick Blechta I’ve got some things on today that will prevent me from writing a post this week — in fact, I should have posted this earl...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Sunny Afternoons

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Having your life so suddenly constricted has been a curious and, in an abstract sort of way, interesting experience. Before I say anything e...
Friday, May 08, 2020

The New Normal

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Colorado is now in a "partial reopening." I don't have the slightest idea what to do. The prohibitions have been in place j...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Nancy Drew at 90

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2020 marks 90 years since Nancy Drew’s first appearance and she doesn’t show any sign of stopping. (Okay, well, there is the graphic novel, ...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Learning to listen

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by Rick Blechta Over the years I’ve become more and more aware of this defect. There has been many a conversation that I’ve totally dom...
Monday, May 04, 2020

Bad boys and bad girls...why do we like them so much?

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Bad boys and bad girls…why do we like them so much? During this time of quarantine, my wife and I are binging on shows we’ve found on both...
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Friday, May 01, 2020

If I Said . . .

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I used a balled up piece of aluminum foil to clean a casserole dish after I burned what I was baking. As I was rising my sparking clean dish...
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