Monday, November 30, 2020

Mr. Critical

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 By Thomas Kies I tell my Creative Writing students that once they’ve taken the class, they’ll find themselves being much more critical of t...
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Stories from Cuba and Mexico

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If you want to be a good writer, you'd better be good reader. To that end, I've got a bunch of books in my reading stack and at the ...
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Friday, November 27, 2020

Dogs and Afternoons

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 I'm thinking of getting a puppy. A little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I'm working at home, and I really need to get out of the h...
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Happy Thanksgiving, 2020 be Damned

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 Donis here, wishing you United Statesians a Happy Thanksgiving, Dear Readers. I hope you are all happy and healthy and staying safe, and ma...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

The best-laid plans

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I acknowledge that I write this post from a position of extreme privilege. I live in Canada, which has universal public health care and a su...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Today's post

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by Rick Blechta Oh my God, it’s Tuesday! You’ll see that I haven’t written a post. I can’t do my usual bale-out of posting a clever cartoon ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Court in the Act

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Ah, Scotland. As you know, I'm a Scot, living in Scotland. And because many of you enjoyed the images last time (well, a number of you. ...
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Friday, November 20, 2020

Weird, Weirder and Weirdest

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  Thanksgiving is getting beyond strange. Our county (Larimer) is begging people not to gather in person for Thanksgiving. Our county is und...
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

A mind in knots

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My youngest daughter, Keeley, loves to bake and to play the piano. She loves to read and daydream. Monday night, she sat down at the piano a...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Bank Robberies and Money Bail

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One of my favorite things about being a writer is doing research. I’ve learned so many things that I never would have found out about if I h...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Getting a little wind in our blogging sails

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by Rick Blechta Today’s post will be a short one (I still have a balustrade to install on our new front porch. Look it up if you have no ide...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Blood on the Page

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 By Thomas Kies Our local college has contracted me to teach another Creative Writing course in January—if our state is still allowing in-pe...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Lessons to Be Learned

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 As I work on my historical thriller set in 1939, I have come to think of the year itself as a character. 1939 is an adolescent. He is torn ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Never Assume.

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 I (Donis) don't know about you, Dear Reader, but I am exhausted. I have generally kept my mouth shut about the state of the world, main...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Promotion in the Age of Covid

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These past two weeks since my last post have been full of drama. First both my dogs got skunked (at 11 pm, pitch dark outside, and I had no ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The degradation of pronunciation

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by Rick Blechta I’m feeling curmudgeonly today, so you’ve all been warned. My irritation about what I’m going to discuss has been building f...
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Monday, November 09, 2020

Taking the show on the road

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One of the things I love about being a writer is going on the road for book festivals and events. I didn’t do much of that in my non-ficti...
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Saturday, November 07, 2020

Guest post by Judy Penz Sheluk

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I am happy to welcome to Type M our guest this weekend, Judy Penz Sheluk. A former journalist and magazine editor, Judy is the author of two...
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Friday, November 06, 2020

Improve!

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Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear were keynote speakers at the recent Women Writing the West conference. The Gears have over 17 m...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

A week in slow motion

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I greatly appreciated Rick’s Tuesday post . Tuesday, for me, dragged on and on and on. I’m usually pretty good at keeping myself busy. As I ...
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