Tag Archives: Sandra Neily

Risk Placing Real Emotion at the Center of Your Work

Yes, it’s all melting, but if we close our eyes we might remember, standing in the same spot …  what we loved. Onward into my post! “If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and … Continue reading

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Weekend Update: March 22-23, 2025

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Maureen Milliken (Monday), Sandra Neily (Tuesday), Kait Carson (Thursday) and Dick Cass (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine … Continue reading

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Welcome Yourself Back Into Your Writing

Sandra Neily here:   The challenge! After a long break, how to reenter a manuscript? (Or a report or anything that’s been sitting for a while.) How to re-engage with the original urge to tell a particular story? I use … Continue reading

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Weekend Update: February 22-23, 2025

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Maureen Milliken (Monday), Sandra Neily (Tuesday), Kait Carson (Thursday) and Dick Cass (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine … Continue reading

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Henry David Slept Here: Maine’s Wild Economy

  Because my post was published a day or two before the Christmas holiday, I thought I’d offer it again in January when we might have more time to relax, read, and reconsider Henry David. ********************* (In 2006 I wrote … Continue reading

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Weekend Update: January 18-19, 2025

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Monday), Maureen Milliken (Tuesday), Sandra Neily Thursday) and Kait Carson (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly … Continue reading

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Weekend Update: December 21-22, 2024

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Sandra Neily (Monday), Kait Carson (Tuesday), Dick Cass (Thursday) and Charlene D’Avanzo (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine … Continue reading

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Fiction and Truth. Together? Not An Oxymoron.

Sandra Neily here: “Since we cannot expect truth from our institutions, we must expect it from our writers.”  Edward Abbey, quoted in my 2018 post, reprinted below. (OK. Here goes. Trump is the only president to have removed more protections … Continue reading

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Weekend Update: November 16-17, 2024

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Monday), Matt Cost (Tuesday), Maureen Milliken (Thursday), and Sandra Neily (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly … Continue reading

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Looking Down, Not Up

Sandra Neily here: Looking down, not up, I found surprises this week. Most leaves, except for brilliant, coppery beech, have left the trees up here around Moosehead Lake. I was not looking forward to November even though we got the … Continue reading

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