Monday, May 31, 2021

The Rich and Famous

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 In my series of mysteries, that villain is most likely rich and famous. Whether it’s surprise, anger, betrayal, or disgust, most of us have...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

My Home, Myself

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 I (Donis) am driving myself insane lately by trying to learn new and more effective methods of online self-promotion. I tried an experiment...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The sounds of inspiration

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 Rick's post got me thinking, so although I have nowhere near as storied a chair as he does, I decided to answer his question, but with ...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

A you sitting comfortably?

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By Rick Blechta Okay, by giving my blog post this particular title I’ve given myself a major ear worm in the form of a song from the late ...
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Monday, May 24, 2021

Scotland - the land of mist, mountain, midges - and murder

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Ah, Scotland. The land of mist and flood, of mountains and heather, of men in skirts and the mighty midge – a small creature that, like th...
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Friday, May 21, 2021

Missed Opportuniies

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 We are slowly emerging from the Great Ordeal. Human groundhogs are finally poking their heads above ground and beginning to peer around. Re...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Squirrels and Notebooks

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Most weeks in the Corrigan household are a little nutty –– part of that comes from living in a dorm with 50 teenagers; part of that comes fr...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Musings on Writing in Present Tense

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  I settle down in my chair and open the book. A smile spreads across my face as I read the words on the page. A sound outside causes me to ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

The value of listening

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by Rick Blechta It’s no great news that modern society is not very good at listening anymore. We tend to talk at each other, thinking only ...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Art Imitating Life?

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 My newest book, SHADOW HILL, due to be released in August has the following descriptive blurb:  “Just days before Morris Cutter, a retired ...
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Friday, May 14, 2021

Bouncing Back and Forth

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Frankie here. It's end of semester and in between reading my students' papers, I am working on a couple of book projects. I missed C...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Life Adjustments

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Charlotte's entry on Tuesday hit a nerve with me (Donis). My writing career has always been about as mid-list as one could get, but I wa...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Memories given a Help!ing hand.

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Howdy, Type M folks, Douglas Skelton at the keyboard. I want to talk about triggers today. Not the ones that crime writers usually talk abou...
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Friday, May 07, 2021

Cold Hard Truth

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 A strange thing happened during when Americans were shut in during the Covid crisis. They started reading books again. This should be terri...
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Thursday, May 06, 2021

Writing or Typing?

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I read an interesting quote once by a poet that went something like this: I write 23 hours a day, I type for one. It indicated that the poet...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021

My Own Little Happy Dance

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  You know that happy dance that Snoopy does? That’s what’s going on in my head right now.   Last week I finished the book I’ve been working...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2021

You can’t stop making up stories, can you?

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by Rick Blechta I had really limited time over the past week to do much writing because we put in a new front lawn and I did a lot of yard w...
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Monday, May 03, 2021

My Seven Rules to Raise the Heat in a Novel

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 I'm halfway through teaching my first-ever Advanced Creative Writing course.  Most of the students are returnees from my earlier classe...
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Friday, April 30, 2021

Technology Trauma

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 My post today is really late because I've spent most of the day dealing with technology. I raced home (driving within the speed limit, ...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Suspended Animation

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As we near the end of pandemic isolation, I feel my life is in suspended animation. Like many others, I am having trouble organizing my thou...
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