Friday, December 31, 2021

Quadruple Whammy

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 I have been debating over the content of this post. It seems unnecessarily ghoulish to list unhappy events on this site. Especially when ev...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Crazy Times & Resolutions

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So this year we spent the holidays in Florida. It was a great vacation, one near family, one spent mostly outside, and one in which we met n...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Best Wishes for the Coming Year

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 This will be a short post. Wishing you all the best in the coming year. We are in the Seattle area where we're experiencing an unusual ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

I got good reasons. Honest!

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by Rick Blechta I know I’ve missed two postings in a row and that’s never happened in over 15 years of posts here on Type M. Two weeks ago i...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

High Anxiety

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 By Thomas Kies When writing a thriller, I’ve been told that you need to keep ramping up the stakes, turn up the heat, and escalate the dang...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

A Debt Paid

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 The Christmas Season is a time for celebration and recollection. I have much to be grateful for, to include the opportunity on Type M to sh...
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Friday, December 24, 2021

The Bad Guy Question

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Sorry to have been away. It was end of semester and I lost track of my day to blog while reading student papers and getting my grades in.  D...
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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Cookies for Christmas

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LaNell's Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies I cannot improve on Barbara's Christmas message for this year. The best I can do to improve your ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Happy Holidays!

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 Today is going to be a very short post. Possibly two or three short paragraphs. We are in tough times yet again and all over the world, we ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Do you need to like a character?

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Do you need to like a character in order to enjoy them? It's a question that has occurred to me many times over the years, most recently...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Book Hoarder or Preserver?

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  I read an article recently about famous people and how many books they have/had in their personal libraries. I learned that, of the people...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Playing Pretend

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By Thomas Kies Last Friday was the third birthday of my twin grandchildren, Thomas and Caroline.  Not recalling what three-year-old children...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Critique Group!

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 I have finally joined a critique group. I have been writing for untold years and I have never been in a critique group before. The major re...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Killing your darlings

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 On Sunday I had an interesting experience that led me to think about the skill of editing. Self-editing, that is. I am currently just finis...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Starting off another reader

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by Rick Blechta I suppose having been a teacher for a major portion of my life that it really is in my blood now. To be clear, what I taught...
Monday, December 06, 2021

That one-legged man, that contest, and me

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I've been reading with interest the posts concerning focus and the need for it in our game. Or, as is often the case, the lack of it. Th...
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Friday, December 03, 2021

Focus Redeaux

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I n the words of Yogi Berra, it's déjà vu all over again. So what's going on, guys? When I was thinking about blog topics, I was tem...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Focus

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Last week, I wrote an email to my agent that many writers have sent: an explanation for why a manuscript was late. Last summer, I said I’d h...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Words of the Year 2021

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  Yesterday morning I read an article in the newspaper about Merriam-Webster selecting its Word of the Year for 2021. Not terribly surprisin...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Focus

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By Rick Blechta These days, it’s difficult to keep one’s focus. (“Gee, now there’s something no one else has ever said before,” stated Capta...