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I Didn’t Intend to Write a Book
From time to time, we like to introduce our readers to other Maine crime writers. Please welcome today’s guest to the blog: Elaine Lohrman: I did not intend to write a book. It was just something I fell into. Conversations … Continue reading
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Where’d That Word Come From?
Writers love words, and the English language is a rich challenge. Like the United States, the English language is a melting pot. In my undergraduate years at UConn, despite being a Business major (to please my father by pursuing a … Continue reading
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Tagged english, etymology, keeton, midcoast maine, mystery writer, word origins
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Let You Tell Me A Story
John Clark offering his maybe, almost, annual story prompts for your edification and pillaging. Feel free to choose one or more and create a story. In the past, I’ve turned a couple into books, and another into a long story. … Continue reading
Writing Tip Wednesday by Matt Cost
Read, Write, Reverse, Repeat. If you want to be a writer, you need to do two things. You need to read and write. And then do it in reverse. And repeat. That’s all. Simple. In Stephen King’s book, On Writing, … Continue reading
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Writing Outside The Crime Genre
There are some novels that have crimes in them that are not crime novels. Then there are some novels that have crimes in them that are crime novels. So what’s the difference? Maybe this isn’t the right blog to do … Continue reading
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A LOOK AT ANOTHER WRITER’S LIFE
In Los Angeles I hate to admit it, but I needed a wake up call. I got stuck in my latest crime/mystery novel and fell a bit into allowing the distraction of the world’s off-kilter, askew-ness, imbalance, WTF-ness, wake-up-and-smell-the-stinky-coffee-ness, kick-in-the-head-realization-that-the-mind-divide-of-my-fellow-human-beings-is-wide-ness … Continue reading
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“Writing Tip Wednesday”
Welcome to Writing Tip Wednesday! I’m still on a grammar kick. I was beginning to think I was “old-fashioned” in being a stickler for where the period or the comma went when using quotation marks, especially in seeing modern pieces … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, Maine writer, mystery writer, quotation marks
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The Voices that Keep Us Going
Kate Flora: I enjoyed reading Kathy’s post about reader feedback so much yesterday that I decided to share some of my own. Those reader cards and letters are much rarer these days, but when I was in my early writing … Continue reading
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