Wednesday, August 30, 2023

A writer's summer life

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 Summer always feels like a mishmash of competing interests and attractions, with little sustained direction or goal. Especially up here in ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Mystery Central

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 By Charlotte Hinger BlackPast is the biggest blog or the website with the most readers that I'm aware of. So what does it take to creat...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

The Writer's Junkyard

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I've started a new manuscript and to my surprise, it was a challenge putting words on the page. I found myself struggling with the perpe...
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Thursday, August 24, 2023

Words From the Masters

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As I struggle along with my work in progress, I take comfort from knowing that great literary masters had the same problems with writing tha...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Of Tropical Storms and Earthquakes

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  I live in Southern California where we recently had a tropical storm warning, the first one in almost 90 years. The last one was in 1939, ...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Writers Are Readers, Right?

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 by Thomas Kies I got a phone call from a man who was referred to me by a friend.  Apparently, they were talking about life insurance.  I kn...
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Friday, August 18, 2023

Someone to Root For

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  As I often do, I am reading books about writing as I work on my next book. Since I have multiple points of view and several primary charac...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Gloucester

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 by Charlotte Hinger They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonde...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Guest Blogger : Margaret Morse

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Type M is thrilled to welcome our guest blogger, the delightful Margaret C. Morse , author of mystery, suspense and urban fantasy novels and...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

The Spooky Art

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While trying to make headway on a new book, I’ve been reading Norman Mailer’s book on writing, The Spooky Art . If there is anything that ca...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2023

From My Nonfiction Reading Pile

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  by Sybil Johnson Lately I’ve been rereading my book that’s coming out in October, making sure I haven’t missed anything and looking at the...
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Monday, August 07, 2023

Welcome Change of Pace

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 by Thomas Kies I apologize for missing my blog deadline two weeks ago.  I was putting the finishing touches on my latest manuscript and los...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

It Bloomed!

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 by Charlotte Hinger Since forever, I've tried to find a perennial flowering plant for this oversized terra cotta planter that would blo...
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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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