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Slipping Beneath the Skin: Thoughts on Conjuring Characters
Originally posted on PORTALS AND PATHWAYS:
Every author has favorite parts of the writing process, or particular strengths or weaknesses. One of my passions in storytelling is characterization. I don’t like reading books about one-dimensional characters who act like their personalities came off of statistic sheets in a Dungeons and Dragons game, and I don’t…
Hunting Season
Originally posted on Pen of the Damned:
Janet Boxley nudged the SUV deeper into the desolate backwoods, peering through the passenger’s side window, searching for her pups’ eyes. Once she’d made it back to camp, she slammed the truck into park and grabbed her flashlight from the glove box before stepping out; her breath pluming…
What it Means to Have Support From People I Have Never Met
How can you trust what they say? For they could be telling you lies They could be making everything up! You don’t KNOW them! This is the fear of the people I HAVE met Who find it so difficult to understand that there are many people in this world Who are good, kind, loving, generous, […]
Mourning Has Broken – Carol Balawyder
Originally posted on Feed My Reads South Africa:
I’ve just reviewed Mourning has broken by Carol Balawyder. Carol Balawyder was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and now lives in Montreal. She taught ESL and criminology for many years. Now, retired, she concentrates her time on writing crime novels, memoirs (see Mourning Has Broken under C.A. Balawyder)and…
Cone indulgence
Originally posted on write meg!:
Though we don’t travel that way often, we always stop for ice cream. Coming back from Virginia on Sunday (we finally got to take our hot air balloon ride — more tomorrow!), Spencer suggested stopping by Hovermale’s — a classic walk-up hot spot in Fort Washington, and my dad’s favorite…
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