Category: Critique
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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
I’m always fascinated with food science. It’s only natural – I like to eat, after all. But in this world of ever uncertain nutritional recommendations, it can be a little confusing for the average consumer. And it’s ultimately the biggest ‘First World Problem’ to use that derisive phrase in a true sense. If you…
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It’s Broken, and I’m done with it
So I got into a bit of an argument with my son. He wants me to take him to the upcoming Star Wars movie, and I flat refuse to have anything to do with it. He was trying to tell me that it’s ok they are basically retreading the whole series, it’s how you…
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Literary Criticism
I do reviews on this blog, sometimes meh, rarely AUGH get it out of my brain!! and mostly good. I will never rise to the level Mark Twain did, in his masterful critique of James Fenimore Cooper… I’m sharing parts of it (and you can find it in whole here, and to download free here)…
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A Curmudgeon on Classics
Cedar here: I’m up to my elbows in Dragon Noir, having fallen behind with travel, and recovery taking longer than I’d anticipated. So my First Reader and in-house curmudgeon reminded me that he’d done a couple of posts for just these occasions, because under that crusty exterior beats the heart of… well, we won’t go…
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Bad Book Covers
When you are studying book covers while you plot to create your next Indie book… Don’t do ANYTHING you see on this site. Lousy Book Covers Go on, go have a giggle, stare in horror… and then come back and we’ll talk about some bad examples in more detail. I asked for contributions of bad…
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Stress-No-More
Writers! Are you blue, depressed, down in the mouth? Are you feeling like you have just written the worst compilation of words ever known in the universe? Well, worry no more! Now, you can take one look at this tome, and know that in comparison your treatise is a shining example of literary merit! Behold…
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All Joking Aside
A few of us were kidding around in the writing group I belong to online. It’s not your average group: we never show one another examples of work for critique, although we use one another as guinea pigs, er, beta readers, from time to time. This group is more for motivation. We post word counts,…
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Breaking the Rules
I’m a bit of an iconoclast, if you read my blog you will have noticed that already. Indie author, on the cusp of that being acceptable (although I predict it will become the norm), not one to go along with teh litewawy dahlings, preferring to read for story, not message…. My First Reader sent me…
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Reactions to a Story
This is a bit of my homework for a class I am taking, Comp. & Lit. A story was read aloud to us in class, and these are my reactions, both as I heard it, and after a day of musing on it, with the three questions I will be turning in as homework. I…