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Is Coffee a Necessity for Creative Writing? By Thomas KiesI’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...
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Scams That Target Writersby 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...
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The Not-So-Good Old Days 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...
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When is enough not enough? In my last post, I asked the question of when writer ought to quit. Before the reviewers start searching for tactful ways to...
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Fried Chicken 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...
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Forging Your Own Writing Path by Sybil JohnsonI found Barbara’s post last Wednesday (“When is enough enough?”) thought-provoking. As writers we get so caught up in...
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The Final Stretch and Freebies I've posted before about my role as the jefe editor for Ramas y Raices: The Best of CALMA, an anthology from the Colorado Alliance of...
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When is enough enough? How does a writer know when to quit? How many books are enough? How long a series is too long? These are questions I've been grappling...
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What Happened Was... by Charlotte HingerA couple of week ago I started a semi-witty post about chickens. I wrote it at night which is always a mistake and...
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How Insulting! And Loving It! Have you ever been in a heated conversation and, when it was over and you had a chance to think about it, wished you could go back and...
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The Never Ending WIPI have been incredibly crabby over the past couple of weeks. I don’t know quite what to blame it on. Sometimes these moods just come and go like...
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Malice Domestic 2024 Recap by Sybil JohnsonIn my last post, I talked about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. A few days after that event, I headed to...
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The blurb industry How time flies! How can I already be late for my Type M post? Today I want to comment on what I see is an increasing trend in publishing....
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Never Shoot the DogWhen all the brouhaha first arose concerning a most unfortunate incident perpetrated by a certain Governor of South Dakota, one of my first...
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2024 by Sybil Johnson The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was held April 20-21 on the main campus of the University of Southern...
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Writers Gotta' Write By Thomas KiesIn a recent blog that’s gone viral written by Elle Griffin for the website www.Elysianpress.com, she refers to the time...
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Never Take Our time Together For GrantedHere's a blog I was hoping I'd never have to write. Last December, Travis Heermann was in a very serious motorcycle accident, which left him in a...
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Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts by Sybil JohnsonI’ve written a couple posts before about some of the podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few years. I admit that I...
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More About Curses by Charlotte HingerBoth Thomas and Donis have recent posts about cursing. According to the guidelines for submissions for the Will Rogers...
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Colorful LanguageOh, dear me. I have company coming. I have been cleaning like a madwoman and have fallen so far behind on everything writerly. I missed my last...
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Sunny for the Bunny and more by Sybil Johnson Today I shall talk about a number of random topics I’ve found of interest lately. Let’s start out with Sunny...
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Curses! When To Use Them! By Thomas KiesSwearing, cursing…include it in your dialogue? Don’t include it? Does it make what your characters are...
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Stories Not Yet Written I recently saw The Godfather Part II and one scene that struck me as painfully relevant to today was when the young Vito Corleone was...
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Let Us BeginWhen you open a book you've never read before, when did you first go “Hmm! How interesting!” I (Donis) know you've heard many times how important...
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Out And About by Sybil Johnson I recently did a bookstore event hosted by Mystery Ink in Huntington Beach, CA with Jennifer J. Chow, author of four...
