Wednesday, September 30, 2020

A writer's mind

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 I really enjoyed Type M newcomer Douglas's post on Monday. I'm fascinated by the way the creative process works and the way we writ...
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Monday, September 28, 2020

Hi, my name is Douglas and I am a crime writer.

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As this is my first post here on Type M for Murder I thought I'd set out my bona fides from the start. I've been labouring at the co...
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Friday, September 25, 2020

Everyone Outdoors

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My daughter (Michele) and granddaughter (Audrey) have launched a new blog--Everyone Outdoors. Both are passionate believers in the merits of...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Kernels

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This week, I went to Maine to see relatives and left thinking about stories –– how they come to me and more importantly where they come from...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Desert Sleuths WriteNow! Conference Recap

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  I recently attended the Desert Sleuths Write Now! conference virtually via Crowdcast. This is a writing conference usually held in Arizona...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Please welcome Type M’s newest member!

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If you have sharp eyes, you’ve no doubt noticed there is a new name on our site: Douglas Skelton, and it is my pleasure and honour to introd...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Tribute to Lilly, My Writing Buddy

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 The Covid-19 pandemic, apocalyptic wildfires in the west, horrific hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast states, lawmakers and citizens denying...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

The Hardest Part for an Amateur Sleuth

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Donis here, still carrying on, still writing on a mystery and hoping my protagonist is smarter than I am. When I start a mystery novel, I us...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

How to survive the pandemic and other chaos

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 As Charlotte said in her Friday post, this has been an extraordinary month in an extraordinary year. Every day we ask How can it get any wo...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

There’s always something new to learn, but is it worth it?

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I’m going to begin this week’s post with the software we here at Type M have to use in order to give our readers something to see. Since not...
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Friday, September 11, 2020

Bewildered

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  Yesterday my daughter send me this picture taken west of her house. It's one of the many fires blazing in Colorado. She's safe, sh...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

I Wanted To Be A Cartoonist

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  I enjoyed reading the recent posts by Thomas and Rick about how they came to be writers. So I thought I’d talk about my own writing journe...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

I didn't want to be a novelist!

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by Rick Blechta I hope everyone has read the excellent posts by Donis and Tom about being a writer. My story is somewhat different. Unlike...
Monday, September 07, 2020

Yeah, I Wanted To Be A Novelist!

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I was going to do a riff on Labor Day, but I just reread Donis Casey’s excellent piece that she posted on Thursday titled “So You Want To Be...
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Thursday, September 03, 2020

So You Want To Be A Novelist.

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You think that it would be a pleasant life to be a published novelist, do you? Allow me to let you in on a thing or two about the act of ...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2020

What's in a name?

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 Charlotte's post on characters got me thinking. I agree, it can be very difficult to keep track of characters, particularly if I'm ...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Today's non-post

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by Rick Blechta Sorry about there being no post today. Here’s my excuse. We preserve chopped tomatoes and tomato sauce every autumn, and...
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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Change of Venue

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I'm a creature of habit and getting more so the older I am. I don't like a change to my routine and can become somewhat of a grump w...
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Friday, August 28, 2020

Keeping Track

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Recently I read a medium length suspense novel that was overloaded with characters. I expect a long historical novel to be packed, but with ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Take a break to add tension

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This week has been a busy one. School kicks off, in a hybrid version, I published a pedagogy article , and got about 3,000 words of fiction ...