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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
7h ago
Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
2d ago
I’m talking about writers’ conferences, not relationships! Returning last week from Left Coast Crime in Bellevue, Washington, I found a flurry of comments in my inbox, addressing the question: was it worth it? It’s a good question to ask.
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1w ago
I was recently at the Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival in Suffolk, Virginia, a yearly event I enjoy attending because it[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1w ago
Almost a year ago my post offered links to music from YouTube, Get Your Free Music Sample Here. Then in[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
2w ago
Signs and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
2w ago
File this post under, “You couldn’t make this stuff up” or “What I learned during eight weeks of a[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1M ago
Is the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Heavens! None of us wants to commit a mortal writing sin, and so new writers are advised to ruthlessly cut them out of our writing. Your writing will always be stronger without them, we’re told. But is this advice always true?
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1M ago
Who said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1M ago
Having a school age kid has meant that my vacations generally rotate around school breaks. As a result, last week[...]
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Miss Demeanors | Writing Mysteries and Plotting Thrilling Tales
1M ago
Writing a book is hard. Getting published is harder. Finding readers and selling the book is even harder. And still[...]
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