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Category: reading
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Taking My Peeves for a Walk
This reader has a few pet peeves. Most of the time I just avoid them, but once in a while I put them on a leash and take them for a stroll, because I am also a writer, and knowing where the peeve has gone lets me avoid annoying my readers. Just be careful…
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Industry Reading
I have too much homework to think too much. Now, isn’t that a conundrum? Anyway, I decided I would spare you my analysis of John Donne’s The Flea, although if you have never read it, you should. It’s really funny. But I will let you analyze it yourself. Just let me suggest that you ponder…
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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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Lit-er-achure
My post for Mad Genius Club is up! What would you expect from a College-level Literature course? And how are you working to subvert the growing aversion to reading? Find out there, as I muse on the seeming demise of words and “works of length.”
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How much Data in my Brain?
My desk is a mess. No, I am NOT posting a picture of it! This is normal for me, actually. I will clean it off, but inevitably the piles grow back, like resistant bacteria you just can’t get rid of forever. The best I can hope for is a kind of stasis, or at least…
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Young Science Fiction
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I’m working on a short story today, about a boy and his dog… and the boy’s spaceship. Then Dave Freer posted this: Zamzummims, where he laments the loss of Science Fiction Giants in the world of the young. We need writers who can give our children wonder, adventure, and a solid science in their fiction.…
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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…
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Back from Vacation
I was gone a whole week, did you miss me? I didn’t even pull my laptop out to work on all week, I was busy spending time with my kids, my aunt who was visiting from Wyoming, Dad, sister, and sundry friends and family. Add to that the stresses of being home-but-not-home, and seeing the…
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Review: Finally!
So, last week I read two space opera novels and had planned to review them on my usual Friday, but time ran out. I work most weekends, and this last week, that meant Friday most of the day, too. Nice, for making-a-living, but meant I was pretty much away from computer for three days. I…
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Writing Gender
My weekly post at Amazing Stories is up. And, to go along with that exercise in writing manly men, I have to go along with the posts at Mad Genius Club this week, ‘Light and Set, and Inspiration from the Past, both pondering Louis L’Amour, arguably the greatest Western author, and a master at writing…
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Inspiring Children
I was invited to guest-blog over at Greta Burrough’s blog today, and I wrote a piece for her movement to inspire children to read, one book at a time. If you’re looking for ideas on how to get your children, or library patrons, or your students, to read more, head on over, and make sure…