Saturday, July 27, 2024

The Nostalgia of Texas Gothic and Horror

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Last Monday, I had the pleasure of moderating the Q&A and book signing of I Was A Teenage Slasher with one of my favorite authors, Step...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Characters

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 by Donis Casey I greatly enjoyed Sybil's entry yesterday about categories. I've been working on a new book, possibly a new series, ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Musings on Categorization

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 by Sybil Johnson People like to categorize things, to put things in boxes. I think it makes it easier for us to deal with and remember all ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Scams and Scoundrels

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 by Charlotte Hinger I can't keep up with all the crooks operating online. Sometimes I think the people who never use the internet are t...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Mother Nature's wrath

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Sybil's post about conflict struck a chord with me today. She listed the three basic types of conflict - with yourself, with another per...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Finances!

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 by Charlotte Hinger One of the best writers I know is Johnny D. Boggs. He actually earns a living from his writing. Of course, he qualifies...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Communication Issues in Fiction

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 by Sybil Johnson Sometime in my 20s I decided managing expectations (yours and others) and good communication were the key to minimizing c...
Monday, July 08, 2024

My Crime Noir

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  By Thomas Kies I’ve been working feverishly on a book that I’m really excited about.  The working title is Exit Signs. The first draft of...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Early Writing Days

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 by Charlotte Hinger I confess that Donis's post about the not-so-good-old-days sent me down memory lane. The above picture is of me and...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

Writing Classes

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 Happy Independence Day! We’ve lived through another Arizona June, and now we have to endure July and August and part of September before we...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Do You Wish You Wrote That?

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 by Sybil Johnson Someone asked me once in an interview what books I wished I’d written. It’s an interesting question. There are all sorts ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

WWA Forevermore

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 by Charlotte Hinger My trip to the Western Writers of America convention got off to a rocky start this year. I intended to take off for Kan...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Book Contests and Mob Hits for Uncle Sam

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 Earlier this week, a fellow writer shared that a couple of writer organizations were asking for book contest judges. Was I interested? No, ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2024

The Mystery Quest

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 Years ago, my husband brought home from the library a copy of Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols. He writes poetry, and symbology is importan...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

Is Coffee a Necessity for Creative Writing?

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 By Thomas Kies I’m hard at work on a new book (almost 240 pages into it) and I’m really excited with it.  It’s dark but not terribly violen...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Scams That Target Writers

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by Sybil Johnson   It never ceases to amaze me how many people try to take advantage of others with various kinds of scams. If only they use...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

The Not-So-Good Old Days

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 Donis here. It's summer again in Phoenix, Arizona, and we are forecast to reach 113º F  today. Time for the first of my annual "it...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2024

When is enough not enough?

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 In my last post, I asked the question of when  writer ought to quit. Before the reviewers start searching for tactful ways to say "pre...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Fried Chicken

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 by Charlotte Hinger  I found this really great cartoon in The New Yorker. It was perfect for my Type M post. I really wanted to use it. It...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Forging Your Own Writing Path

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 by Sybil Johnson I found Barbara’s post last Wednesday (“When is enough enough?”) thought-provoking. As writers we get so caught up in wha...