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Fragments of Daylight: February 2013
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013. Maybe I should say seduced again. Doesn't the definition of novel say it has a beginning, middle and end? I just feel cheated when a book has no end. I'm also a little jealous that I can't write well enough to be able to write a story that people love even though it is missing something that should be essential to all novels. Tuesday, February 19, 2013. I exclaimed. I was astonished." Really? While I can't recommend Silks or Even Money, I think mystery readers and Francis fa...
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Fragments of Daylight: Not So Bad
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Thursday, March 7, 2013. It is a fact that when writers - not just beginners, but any writer not yet at the top of their craft (and most of us never are) - go back and read their earlier works, they cringe at how poor the writing is. Maybe it's not awful, maybe just certain aspects of it seem bad, but they feel they could write it so much better. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by luoman.
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Fragments of Daylight: April 2014
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Monday, April 7, 2014. Poetry, blogging, journals and fiction. I've seen many writer and blogger friends post this lately: "I haven't blogged in forever! This is true for me as well and I wonder if they are having the same problem I have. I've been wanting to post things, have topics I want to write about it, but when I try, I haven't been able to and wasn't sure why. I know I've 'discovered' this many times before and probably written a few other posts about it, but here it is again. No form of writ...
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Fragments of Daylight: Mystery Milieus
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Sunday, April 28, 2013. Lots of books and series are given settings to appeal to the different interests of readers- and presumably the writer. Some of these work really well and some not so much. I know of at least two authors - well, former jockeys who are mediocre writers - who wrote several books each about the horse racing world. I struggled to read one or two and gave up. The same is true of two authors I tried because their mystery protagonists were equine or small animal veterinarians.
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Fragments of Daylight: April 2013
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Mourning the Southern Vampire. The soon-to-be-released Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris is going to be the last in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series. I am mourning the end of this series! Unlike many book series, each book in this one has a great, unique story and facinating characters. And there are so many stories that can still be told about these characters and their fictional world. So why is it ending? As a huge fan of Ms. Harris' books, this series and he...
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Fragments of Daylight: July 2012
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Thursday, July 19, 2012. How Being A Writer Can Ruin A Good Book. I'm being generous here - with a lot of work, the book I have in mind might attain the adjective "fair". It would possibly make a decent short story. It's a cozy mystery centered around golfing, set in a country club community. I think the mystery itself might be interesting (I'm only half way through the book) and some of the characters are likable. I mentioned in my last post that I had begun reading Fifty Shades of Gray and the writing ...
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Fragments of Daylight: Leave It In
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Sunday, March 3, 2013. Common advice to novelists is that if anything in the story - scene, action, dialogue, description - fails to move the plot forward or reveal something about the character(s), it should be cut. This is mostly sound advice. Whatever the purpose, if humor can be said to have a purpose in a novel, these scenes could be cut without taking anything from the story. The plot line and characterization would remain unchanged. According to the aforementioned advice, they should have ...I don...
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Fragments of Daylight: January 2013
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Am, Have, Will (Reading, read). I am still reading - and loving - Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss. Fans of fantasy novels should really check out his trilogy. Book one is The Name Of The Wind and Rothfuss is an amazing storyteller. I'm about to start the latest by Tim Dorsey, Riptide Ultra Glide. Dorsey's books are not ones I can recommend to anyone. The main character is a hyperactive, good-hearted, social activist serial killer and the story lines are insane an...I don...
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Fragments of Daylight: Mourning the Southern Vampire
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Mourning the Southern Vampire. The soon-to-be-released Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris is going to be the last in the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series. I am mourning the end of this series! Unlike many book series, each book in this one has a great, unique story and facinating characters. And there are so many stories that can still be told about these characters and their fictional world. So why is it ending? As a huge fan of Ms. Harris' books, this series and he...