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What’s a Mini-PlotPantser?

March 27, 2025 Catherine Maiorisi Uncategorized, Writers, Writing

It’s no secret. I’m a pantser. And I’ll never be a plotter, someone who outlines before starting to write. But[…]

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Writers: Eight Ways to Combat FOMO

March 6, 2025 Dawn Barclay Uncategorized, Writers habits, Writing

Are you avoiding “missing out” or just overcomplicating life? Until recently, I had always defined FOMO, or Fear of Missing[…]

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Great Expectations and Bad Breakups

February 27, 2025 Lori Robbins #inspiration, Editing, Fiction, Inspiration, Language, Mystery Community, Reading, Writers, Writing

Great Expectations and Bad Breakups: How writers craft endings that justify the means and means that justify the ends. See also: Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with a Knife.

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Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction

January 23, 2025 Lori Robbins Contemporary Culture, Mystery Community, Publishing, Setting, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing

The COVID conundrum in crime fiction

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Writing with Intentionality

December 5, 2024 Catherine Maiorisi Uncategorized, Writers habits, Writing

I’m about to start the final edit of my very messy manuscript of Blood of the Innocents, the fifth NYPD Detective[…]

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On Writing: Casting Spells and Making Magic

October 31, 2024 Lori Robbins #inspiration, Creating Characters, Writing

Are you a good witch or a bad witch? When Dorothy crash lands in Oz, she answers Glinda’s baffling question[…]

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Four Ways I Use Food in My Mysteries

October 10, 2024 Catherine Maiorisi Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized, Writing

Two of our three weeks in Sicily have been spent with two other couples in a lovely villa, a short[…]

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Lori Robbins: Armchair Detective and Serial Late-Bloomer

October 3, 2024 Lori Robbins #inspiration, Creating Characters, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot I’m delighted to join the accomplished,[…]

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Writing While on Vacation

September 24, 2024 Catherine Maiorisi Uncategorized, Writers, Writers inspirations, Writing

Hello from Sicily. I’m in Palermo trying to work on the last round of edits before I submit the fifth[…]

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Sensational Writing

September 24, 2024 Emilya Naymark Writers, Writers inspirations, Writing

Sensational can mean many things. It can mean fabulous, trashy, astounding. But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today,[…]

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