Location location location
We read and write to visit places in our mind. I’ve been inspired to visit cities because of books I’ve read, and I’ve been inspired to write about places I’ve lived.
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Month: June 2021
BEE-WITCHED BY WORDS
Words. There are worse things to be addicted to. I am a reader and a writer. I love words. But I had always had a mild disdain for word games. Until recently.
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Fearless Writing
I’ve been reading Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred, which is about “a modern black woman, who is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday[…]
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Assembling a Cast or Creating Characters?
I have two sons, born three years apart—raised in the same household by the same parents, attending the same schools,[…]
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Bouchercon!
https://www.bouchercon2021.com/registration-information Last March, I was in San Diego at Left Coast Crime when the convention was shut down on the[…]
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A Matter of Broiling Importance
Turns out, broilers can be anywhere and nowhere, powered by gas or electricity, and mistaking a gas broiler for a storage cabinet can have…erm… torrid consequences.
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How writers recharge
Retreat? Recharge? Is there a difference and do writers need both? I’d argue yes. My fellow MissDemeanors shared their official Retreat thoughts last week, while I was on a Recharge trip. A recharge isn’t the same as a working trip where I’m running around researching a place, taking notes, jotting details on a map about smells and sounds, hoping to capture that perfect element that says “here.” My trip was a vacation.
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Get Away From it All
The Missdemeanors discuss finding places and times to focus on writing. If you had the chance to escape from your every day, where would you go? Join the discussion.
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Art Imitates Life: The Detective and the Serial Killer
I read a fascinating account about a police detective in New Jersey who solved a number of cases involving the[…]
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Should we be writing about the pandemic? Now?
A few nights ago I attended a virtual reading at Neo-Noir at the Bar. Got to hear a number of[…]
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