Thursday, October 31, 2024

Why do we write what we write?

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Happy Halloween! I have some scary questions for you today. What leads us to write what we write? And in an ever-shrinking market, what shou...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Happy Halloween!

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 by Sybil Johnson I can’t believe tomorrow is Halloween! The year has sped by.  When I was growing up, Halloween wasn’t as big a deal as it ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Try Seasonal

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 by Charlotte Hinger I have a neighbor who goes all out for Halloween. Their display is enormous. I'm intrigued by the figures every yea...
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Monday, October 28, 2024

Hemingway’s Rules for Writing

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  By Steve Pease writing as Michael Chandos "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way....
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

The Call

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Twenty years ago this month, I got "The Call," meaning the phone call I received from my agent informing me that HarperCollins had...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Link Arms and Dance

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Donis here today. As I've mentioned more than once on this blog, I'm in the middle of acting as Writer in Residence for the Glendale...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Leaping into the void

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 As usual, recent posts by my fellow Type M'ers contain so much food for thought and inspiration for posts of my own. What a wealth of w...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The End

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 by Catherine Dilts The first killing freeze is late to arrive this year. My garden, lacking access to weather apps, has already slowed wa...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Look at Me! (But I Don't Want to be Famous)

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Hi, I'm Shelley! Nice to meet you.  If there’s one aspect of this writing life that wickedly grins and winks it’s baleful eye at me, it’...
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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Present Tense?

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First, apologies. I have been away far too long. My day job got very demanding, leaving me two free hours a day, which I have spent writing ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Welcome Back, Suspense Magazine!

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 by Sybil Johnson You may remember that I did a post a few weeks back about Mystery Magazine ceasing publication after the September 2024 ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Tell, Don't Show

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by Charlotte Hinger One of the most misunderstood "rules" in writing successful novels is the instruction to "Show, don't...
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Monday, October 14, 2024

Do Private Investigators Carry Guns?

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 By Steve Pease, retired PI and writer   Genre fiction is beset with clichés. Medical shows on TV, cop shows, PI shows. The tropes come wit...
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Thursday, October 10, 2024

What Did He Say?>

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 I, Donis, have been working as Writer in Residence for Glendale, AZ, Public Library, which as most of you Dear Readers know, entails both p...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Pre-release planning

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 What an exciting series of posts Type M has had recently, several from new members who bring fresh perspectives and new energy to the group...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Building Your Base

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 by Catherine Dilts The annual Ultra running event 24 Hours of Palmer Lake began at 8:00 the morning of September 28. But preparation began ...
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Monday, October 07, 2024

Critique Groups

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 By Thomas Kies In my creative writing classes, I often suggest that the participants join the North Carolina Writers Network and the local ...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

A Writer's Superpower

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 by Sybil Johnson I believe that every writer has a superpower. It might be the ability to craft clever dialog or describe a scene so well ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Well Shut My Mouth

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 by Charlotte Hinger Years ago, a lady I think the world of--a dear, dear friend, a native Kansan like me, scolded me after a talk I had giv...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Introducing Steve Pease

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 b y Steve Pease (Michael Chandos) Thanks for the invite to join this most interesting writer’s blog. I am Steve Pease and I live in Colorad...
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