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A Side of Murder
The title for this post was almost a paragraph of 5s. Because I had walked away from the keyboard to make coffee, and gather a thought to write about, and Toast stood on the key. Rather than sharing...
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Reading time management
I realized something the other day. The worst of it is, this isn’t the first time I’ve had this same epiphany. I need to read more. Reading is to writing as food is to energy in the human organism. If...
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On a Foggy Christmas
Christmas is just two days away. This is a very odd season for me this year. With a newly-empty nest, my husband turned and looked at me and asked ‘did Christmas sneak up on you, too, this year?’ Yes,...
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The hatred for sf and fantasy by the doyens of literary fiction is as vast as the sea of tears they weep when someone points out that despite the push from many publishers, academia, the media,...
View ArticleYou can go home again, when you make your home in books
If you’ve returned to your childhood home or visited anywhere from your past, you’ve probably learned just how true the adage is, that you can’t go home again. But my home, and probably yours, is as...
View ArticleSurprise me
Thinking recently about two books that surprised me, one from a half-century ago, one recently published. Both going counter to the expected story of the time. I really wish I could remember the title...
View ArticleBooks for Almost-Beginning Writers
WP ate the final version of this, so I’ve reconstructed it as best I could. I apologize for not catching the mess! The topic came up over the weekend, and it has been a while since we had a...
View ArticleThe Search For a Good Book
I haz a complaint with the universe. All I wanted was a good book I could escape into, for a while. Amazon says: Here is a romantic suspense in your custom recommendations! You will like this romantic...
View ArticleJust another chapter…
I suppose I’m being a bad influence when a friend confesses that she stayed up way too late binge-reading a series, and is now half-dead… and my immediate reaction is to celebrate she found something...
View ArticleThreads
“We don’t want men of your fibre here.” “Fibre? Whadya mean? I got cool threads man!” Ah. But it is not just the threads themselves. It’s finally how they bind together. Actually, most stories are...
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