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Friday, July 28, 2023

Writing Scenes

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Like most writers I am always interested in the processes used by other writers. Since I started working on my 1939 historical thriller I...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Progress

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When last we met, Dear Reader, I was in quite a funk. My nephew was in the hospital on life support and here in the Phoenix area we had suff...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!

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  by Sybil Johnson  Before the pandemic I don't think I'd ever heard of Zoom. Or Crowdcast. Skype, sure, I'd heard of that, even...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Competing Narratives

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 I'm starting a new novel. With as much experience that I have as a published author and as a creative writing instructor, it would seem...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Short Stories to Novels

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This is my first full summer as a Michigan resident. The weather, excluding some air-quality concerns, has been excellent –– unlike everywh...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Cowboy Mike

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 by Charlotte Hinger A beloved member of Western Writers of America, Michael Searles, died the day before our annual convention in Rapid Cit...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023

The Summer of My Discontent

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 Like Tom wrote a couple of days ago, I've begun writing a totally new series, though I'm enjoying it very much, it's so differe...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Insecure Me

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  by Sybil Johnson I found Monday’s post by Thomas on Writing and Insecurity very interesting. It’s nice to know other writers are as insecu...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

What Do You Mean By That?

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 by Charlotte Hinger When our daughter, Michele, was a little girl she brought home a sheet of paper from school with her name written in pe...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Writing and Insecurity

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By Thomas Kies I’m nearly finished writing the first draft of a new book.  It’s not part of the Geneva Chase series which I’ve loved doing. ...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Summertime trials

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 Happy Canada Day (July 1st), Happy Fourth of July! It's been a weekend of contradictions - Wild storms and sweltering heat, smoke, fire...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Blurbs and Front Material

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  By Charlotte Hinger The publisher of my historical novel, Mary's Place , University of Nebraska Press, needs one of my blurbs by the e...
Friday, June 30, 2023

A Cautionary Tale

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 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . ." You probably remember this opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. Tha...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023

The Weather Report

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Watermelon pie  Donis here. I live in southern Arizona, so the weather report for the end of June is always the same. It's hot. The fore...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Bye Bye Safety Deposit Boxes?

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 by Sybil Johnson I read a newspaper article not long ago about how Chase bank is phasing out safety deposit boxes (or safe deposit boxes, ...
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Love a Good MacGuffin!!!

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by Thomas Kies    In his last blog, Mario Acevedo mentioned a story device called a MacGuffin. What exactly is a MacGuffin? The term origina...
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Saturday, June 24, 2023

My Crystal Ball Needs Adjustment

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 I have good news to share as Denver Noir  won a Colorado Book Award. The anthology had a great roster of writers who each contributed an am...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

In celebration of writers' retreats, writing or not

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 This will be a short post because I am spending four days at a "writers' retreat" with two of my close writer friends, Vicki ...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

What Happened?

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 by Charlotte Hinger      I'm finally back after a long absence. So here's what happened: On a long-planned and much anticipated tri...
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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Starting Something Completely Different...

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 ...and wondering what the hell did I do that for? Donis here. I've started writing a book that is entirely different from anything I...
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