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Shop Talk: Patience and Trust vs Outline
Once upon a time, at the very beginning of my writing career, I would spend several months outlining a book before I began to write, and then revise the outline as I moved along. The revisions were not simply a matter of ensuring that… Continue Reading “Shop Talk: Patience and Trust vs Outline”
About Time (Literally)
My refrigerator started dying a few weeks ago. Once we realized what had gone wrong we wondered about how a fairly new one had gone wrong so quickly. Or did it just feel newish compared with the longevity of the former fridge-I-detested, which had… Continue Reading “About Time (Literally)”
In Conversation with…Myself
From time to time I dive back into the earlier Owen Archer novels to check what I’d written about a character who is showing up again in the latest book. As I did this on the weekend, and felt I was in conversation with… Continue Reading “In Conversation with…Myself”
Background on A TRIPLE KNOT: Envisioning Joan
An invitation to be the guest of honor at the meeting of a neighborhood book club who are reading A Triple Knot prompted me to reread the book I wrote…can it be 8-9 years ago?! Yes. I approached it with a bit of anxiety–would… Continue Reading “Background on A TRIPLE KNOT: Envisioning Joan”
Shop Talk: Juggling
The year is not yet a month old, but very nearly. As my New Year’s resolution regarding social media is to post here more and visit Twitter less I’d planned to post to my blog at least once a month. Some posts, such as… Continue Reading “Shop Talk: Juggling”
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