Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Punctuation Rules and Quotation Marks

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  by Sybil Johnson I enjoyed the post on Monday by Thomas on breaking rules and quotation marks. (FYI, I really dislike it when people don’t...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Thanksgiving With the Family

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 by Charlotte Hinger There's nothing like a Thanksgiving trip to Pensacola, Florida. My nephew, Charles Mader and his wife, Brenda host ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Rules, Breaking Rules, and Quotation Marks

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 by Thomas Kies When I begin a Creative Writing class, I write two things on the whiteboard.  The first thing I write is the word “Rules” I ...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

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 Journalism 101 By Johnny D. Boggs After two-plus years of writing, rewriting, screaming, pulling hair and watching countless movies that fe...
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving 2022

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 Since all you Americans are eating yourselves into a stupor today, I thought I'd add to the joy by reprinting a beloved Casey family ho...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The hazards of "how to"

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 I read Charlotte's Tuesday post with interest, remembering the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly of my critiquing experiences. Som...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Too Dumb for Words

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by Charlotte Hinger Janet Hutchings, the editor of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine , asked me to create a blog post for their on-line blog. He...
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Monday, November 21, 2022

Breaking up is hard to do

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 The thing about life is that things end. One season become another, one minute becomes another. Life goes its own inexorable way and there ...
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Driving rain

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 The story so far: It's Book Week Scotland and crime writers are criss-crossing the country visiting libraries and other venues like ban...
Friday, November 18, 2022

In Search of a Title

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This post is going to be short because I'm trying to finish my nonfiction book about gangster movies and get it out before Thanksgiving ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Slow boil

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I started reading “The Chain,” by Adrian McKinty, recently, and I’m loving it. The premise alone is riveting, especially to a parent, and ev...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Shepherd.com

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  I first heard about Shepherd.com in Jane Friedman’s newsletter, The Hot Sheet. It’s a book discovery site founded a little over a year ag...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Fake Phez Phest

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 This past weekend was the beginning of pheasant season in Western Kansas. It used to be our favorite family celebration.  It began innocent...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Changing Your Point of View

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 by Thomas Kies My last Creative Writing class of the year was last week.  I’m having lunch with my liaison at the college to discuss my nex...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

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Writing That Sings  By Johnny D. Boggs This week finds me in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the annual International Western Music Association...

Zen and the Art of Writing While Maintaining Your Sanity

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I (Donis) have had 12 novels published during my nearly twenty-year writing career and done pretty well, but I've been having some troub...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

A crime writer's take on travelling

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 When my computer alerted me today that it was my week to post on Type M, I realized I had skipped my last Wednesday post. I doubt anyone no...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2022

No Sense of Time

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 by Charlotte Hinger The first time I bit off more than I can chew was when I was eleven years old. I was an avid 4-Her and a member of the ...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Pressing the flesh

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Last weekend I was in lovely Grantown-on-Spey, nestling close to the Cairngorms, for the town's Wee Crime Festival. It's been three ...
Friday, November 04, 2022

True Crime to Fiction

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 I'm getting a late start this morning because I had to take my dog into the vet for his physical. Alas, he weighs more now than he did ...