Monday, February 28, 2022

Possession is nine tenths of the dog

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Today I wrote an entire piece about the situation in Ukraine, because that is quite rightly preoccupying many of us.  However, I've pull...
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Saturday, February 26, 2022

Making the same mistakes, and new ones.

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  Every war is a rehearsal for the next one. For my post this month I was going to write about La Malinche and me. Maybe in March. Hopefully...
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Friday, February 25, 2022

Terrible People

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 I'm a historian. I know a little about Russia's troubled history. Not much. Not enough. But Putin's invasion of Ukraine broke m...
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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Who or Whom?

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I had back-and-forth email exchanges Saturday afternoon, diagramming a sentence –– written by me, no less –– with two colleagues, English te...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Award Nominees

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  A lot of mystery award nominations have come out in the last few weeks. I usually scan the names and titles when the nominations first com...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The new heroism

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by Rick Blechta It’s interesting that Tom wrote his post about characters yesterday (and it’s well worth reading) because I was planning to ...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

Too Many Characters?

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 By Thomas Kies How many characters in a book are too many?  I’m struggling with that because in the book I’m working on now, it just feels ...
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Friday, February 18, 2022

After the First Draft

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 After having spent a couple of hours trying to get my laptop, that seemed to be frozen, to unlock, I decided to Google the problem before c...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Long After Valentine's Day

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 Donis here, writing onValentine's day, a couple of days before this entry appears, since I'll be busy for the next couple of days. ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Wreck Bay moves one step closer

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 Good morning! I'm late with this post for three reasons. First, because things have been a little crazy here in Ottawa and I've bee...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Mattresses, guns and cannoli

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Earlier this week I tweeted that the film version of 'The Godfather' is 50 years old this year. Think about that. It means that 50 y...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

Great Writing Advice

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I'm responding to Rick's post on the best writing advice he's ever received. There are two pieces of writing advice I've rec...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Turning Points

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  I think every writer has at least one turning point in their writing. Something that sets them on a different path. It might be an illness...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

The best advice

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by Rick Blechta Needing to fill a whole in my university timetable with an “academic” course — when what I really wished to do was take an a...
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Monday, February 07, 2022

Opening Lines- Great Beginnings

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 By Thomas Kies With great interest, I read Frankie Y. Bailey’s blog about wrestling with the opening scene of her new work in progress. (In...
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