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Secrets, Lies and Our Book
Two threads of awareness have converged inside me recently regarding something more that our book needs from us. First, in different posts (most recently in this post of Mary’s) we have all come to...
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Show. Don’t Tell.
Good writers don’t tell how their characters feel, they show how they feel. This was a lesson in writing that I learned many years ago. I remember it well. I am trying to remember this rule as I...
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We’re Getting Serious….
Since I write the 1st blog of each week … it’s the order we came up with back in Feb when we began our blog … I get the first crack at sharing what we discussed at our weekly Sunday get-togethers. I...
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We’re Getting Better….
Earlier this week, Mary posted about how We’re Getting Serious. At our meeting over the week-end we added more detail to our plot structure, worked on creating and fleshing out some of our...
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Thinking In My Mind
You work and study so hard all your life. You meet mental challenge after mental challenge. You become very confident in your intelligence and astuteness. People come to know your brain as quick,...
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I Can’t Stop Writing!
So now that I’ve been doing this “writing a novel” thing for a while, I’ve discovered that it is a universal problem that writers have trouble finding time to write. Writers blog on about it...
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In Search of Guava Duff
On a recent vacation in the Bahamas, we read about Guava Duff, a traditional Bahamian dessert. All the restaurants listed it on the menu. All the Bahamians spoke fondly of it. Only no one could...
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About My Hat
I’ve always been rather fond of the expression that someone is “wearing more than one hat” or “wearing different hats”. It refers, of course, to the differing roles and functions we all assume in our...
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My Buried Sense of Humor
I think Mary and Karen and I have agreed that we need to maintain our senses of humor while writing this book. (We each try to maintain our sense of humor through life, really.) I personally am much...
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Summer, We Hardly Knew Ye…
It has been the strangest of summers, it seems, for so many of us. Drenching rains in June, tropical heat in July, the briefest of pleasant weather days in August. And now…..it’s gone. 3friends met...
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