Monday, April 29, 2024

Writers Gotta' Write

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 By Thomas Kies In a recent blog that’s gone viral written by Elle Griffin for the website www.Elysianpress.com, she refers to the time when...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Never Take Our time Together For Granted

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Here's a blog I was hoping I'd never have to write. Last December, Travis Heermann was in a very serious motorcycle accident, which ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Drumroll...

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 Barbara here, finally. I have been AWOL from this blog for a month due to unexpected medical challenges but I am back!Albeit late and with ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts

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 by Sybil Johnson I’ve written a couple posts before about some of the podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few years. I admit that I hav...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

More About Curses

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 by Charlotte Hinger Both Thomas and Donis have recent posts about cursing. According to the guidelines for submissions for the Will Rogers ...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Colorful Language

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Oh, dear me. I have company coming. I have been cleaning like a madwoman and have fallen so far behind on everything writerly. I missed my l...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Sunny for the Bunny and more

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  by Sybil Johnson  Today I shall talk about a number of random topics I’ve found of interest lately. Let’s start out with Sunny for the Bun...
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Curses! When To Use Them!

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 By Thomas Kies Swearing, cursing…include it in your dialogue?  Don’t include it?  Does it make what your characters are saying any less aut...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Stories Not Yet Written

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 I recently saw The Godfather Part II and one scene that struck me as painfully relevant to today was when the young Vito Corleone was proc...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Let Us Begin

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When you open a book you've never read before, when did you first go “Hmm! How interesting!” I (Donis) know you've heard many times ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Out And About

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 by Sybil Johnson I recently did a bookstore event hosted by Mystery Ink in Huntington Beach, CA with Jennifer J. Chow , author of four di...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Proofreading!

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By Charlotte Hinger I've received the pages for Mary's Place, my historical novel that will be published by the University of Nebras...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Drumroll...

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In my last blog post, I said I was waiting for the final decision from the publisher on the title for my upcoming Inspector Green novel. It...
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Thursday, March 07, 2024

Let Us Talk About Dreams

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 I  (Donis) would like to talk about dreams today, Dear Reader. A while back I was getting ready to conduct a journaling and memoir workshop...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Working Environments

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  by Sybil Johnson I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how companies are having a hard time getting workers to go back to the office post-p...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Looking at Things in New Ways

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By Thomas Kies On Valentine’s Day, my first cataract surgery took place.   Romantic, huh? It was my left eye and before the surgery, it ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Hurry up and wait

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 I had intended this post to be the revelation of my new book title, the twelfth Inspector Green mystery, featuring the disgruntled, exiled ...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Keeping Track

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 By Charlotte Hinger Boy, do I ever wish I had started keeping track of everything connected with writing from the beginning. Some years bac...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Back in the Learner's Seat

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I've been at this writing game for awhile. My debut novel was published in 2006. Since then I've had several more novels and numerou...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Tempus Fugit

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 Time passes so quickly that it alarms me sometimes. How did I get anything done at all in my real life when I worked for other people? The ...
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