Monday, June 30, 2025

Never Hurt a Dog

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 by Thomas Kies My wife has one rule for when I write.  I can kill as many people as I want in any gruesome way my imagination can conjure u...
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Saturday, June 28, 2025

The Night I Cried Because The World Was Going To End

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I was in elementary school during the height of the Cold War. My dad was in the Army Reserves and worked as a chemist at White Sands Missile...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Somewhere Between Love & Pain

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A "Boonie" Rooster in Guam. Hello, Shelley here. As you Type M readers may know, I often complain about technology, social media, ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Books, Books and More Books!

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 by Sybil Johnson As you might guess, I love books. Always have, always will. I remember looking at a picture book of The Three Little Pigs...
Monday, June 23, 2025

I anyone reading this blog?

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    I have sponsored blogs on personal web sites. I've responded regularly to blogs like Quora. The web page stats usually said dozens o...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Parents

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 Dad and Mom and Me Donis here. May and June always put me in mind of my parents, both of whom are gone now. Both Fathers' Day and Memor...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

A Sure Cure for Burnout

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by Catherine Dilts What do you do when you realize your creative energy is fizzling, not sizzling? Road Trip! My husband snagged tickets t...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

A.I.--the Digital Poltergeist

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 by Thomas Kies Last week Artificial Intelligence snuck like a digital poltergeist into our writing critique group.  About eight of us have ...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Get Your Focus On

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Life is distracting. There are the two-hundred television streaming options. There are the 51 million YouTube channels. (not hyperbole. I lo...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Creating Characters

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 by Sybil Johnson Creating characters for stories is both fun and challenging. I worry sometimes that the ones I’ve created are too much ali...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Sorting the Sites

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 by Charlotte Hinger Barbara Fradkin a long time of Type M' recently shared all of her frustrations with social media in a post entitled...
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Monday, June 09, 2025

Have you ever been to a murder?

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   Type M For Murder, right? So let's talk about one, a real life experience that looked like a murder but that turned out to be a natur...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Peonies and Pine Pollen

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by Catherine Dilts Warmer weather is finally here on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s not uncommon for us to receive snow i...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

Using Substack for an Author Newsletter

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The cover image from my recent author newsletter on JOY. Happy Friday, Type Ms! It's Shelley, and I'm going to share a little bit ab...
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