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You Know a Book is Good When…By Scott D. Parker (The day job on Friday was more like a Monday and it sucked up all my energy. Shrug. It happens. But that means I...
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Cover reveal for The County LineThe cover for The County Line is now live. The novel is pitched as DEADWOOD meets BOARDWALK EMPIRE, the story of a small town...
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FDR, Ted Lasso, and The Value of KindnessBy Scott D. Parker Television this week boiled down to two things: the three-part, six-hour FDR documentary on The History Channel and the...
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The Ten Year StoryI wrote a story almost ten years ago. The exact date, or even the year, is kind of hard to pin down. That's the way it is with creative...
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Live by the Pen, Die by the KnifeOver the weekend, which was one of gorgeous late spring weather in New York City, warm but not quite hot, sunny, cloudless, with no humidity, I...
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Review: A Truffle Load of Good Writing (And Dogs)Unfortunately doesn't have scratch-and-sniff, but is otherwise perfection. Normal 0...
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What Are You Going To Do With the 99 Days of Summer 2023?Veteran writer Dean Wesley Smith dubs the summer months the Time of the Great Forgetting. It’s that point in the year when the good intentions...
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Martin Amis and Elmore LeonardWhen news came of Martin Amis' death, I, like many, thought not only about his fiction but of how good his non-fiction writing is. In this vein,...
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It’s an Easy Choice: Don’t Wait a Year to Read Falling by T.J. NewmanBy Scott D. Parker Look at that cover. How cool is that? For me, it stopped me in my tracks last year when I saw it for the first time....
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Using AI to write today's DSD postBy Steve Weddle and AI I've been busy as hell watching YouTube videos on the best sling bags for travel, so I asked Chat GPT to write a...
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Two Enjoyable Private EyesSome reading I did recently reminded me that a lot of the pleasure that comes from reading private eye novels lies in how enjoyable it is to just...
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Season 2 of Perry Mason Continues to Reimagine the CharactersBy Scott D. Parker The second season of Perry Mason played more or less like how the original series television show used to: introduce...
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Two-a-Day Writing Sessions to Speed Up Your WritingBy Scott D. Parker For those of us with a day job that is not fiction writing, we have to choose to carve out time in our day to write our...
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Eryk Pruitt on what he reads, writes, and owes“There are storytellers who seem to come to us fully formed. Bards who create worlds and characters that captivate us...
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StrikeThe post I had planned for this week is going to have to get pushed back a bit. Instead, this week, we're talking about something else....
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Jessica Leonard on CONJURING THE WITCHHorror stories centering around witches, whether in books or film, have always been among my favorite horror stories, so when I saw that Jessica...
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Ted Lasso: A Beacon of Joy and Compassionby Scott D. Parker Note: This has been a week of Mondays for me and I'm going to have to call an audible and put up a repeat post...
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My Favorite PrisonI read an article in the NY Times the other day about a prison that perhaps should be a model for others around the world. It's in Peru, and...
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Sometimes Spoilers Are Fine AKA I Knew How The Last of Us Ended Before I StartedBy Scott D. Parker I never thought I’d watch The Last of Us, the popular show by HBO based on a video game of the same name. In fact the...
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When You’re Down in the Dumps, Be Open to the World Helping YouBy Scott D. Parker Sometimes, creativity is hard, discouraging, and challenging. In every creative project, there is always a moment (or...
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Familiar Yet Foreign NoirA few weeks ago, after I was part of a discussion on Facebook about Robert Altman's film version of The Long Goodbye (1973), which remains...
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Do You Ever Defy Expectations Like Harrison Ford?By Scott D. Parker Let’s be honest: if you watched Apple TV’s “Shrinking” series, a good number of us did so because we had one overriding...
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SwarmI just finished watching Swarm , the new series on Prime co-created by Janine Nabors and Donald Glover. It's an alternately unsettling and funny...
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