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Novel Thoughts: July 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. Hub City This Weekend: It's About Perspective. I'm going to be at the Hub City Writing Conference. This weekend in Spartanburg, SC. I'm leading a fiction workshop, and my focus is narrative point of view in fiction. [Info on the conference registration follows, but my class is full. I think all the fiction classes are full! The essential question for point of view: Who is telling the story? This kind of narrator:. 8220; . .many contemporary narratives are written in first...Dista...
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Novel Thoughts: Writing: A Loooooooong Apprenticeship
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Monday, February 14, 2011. Writing: A Loooooooong Apprenticeship. In the traditional meaning: "apprenticeship" became prominent in medieval Europe with the emergence of the craft guilds. The standard apprenticeship lasted seven years, from age 14 to 21, for example. [Back then you died at 40, so there wasn't time for career burnout.]. I like to use the word apprenticeship. To describe writing, because unless one is enormously freakishly talented at a disgustingly young age, [see The New Yorker's. St Mart...
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Novel Thoughts: Don't Miss "Getting Closer"
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Monday, January 3, 2011. Don't Miss "Getting Closer". In this issue of The New Yorker: a gorgeous story, " Getting Closer. I admire Millhauser's fiction.he is a fabulist and a minaturist- totally unique voice- nobody writes like him. This story is rather short, but every sentence glitters with hard beauty like a jewel. And such suspense! You know something is going to happen, something important. The Zen Buddhist term for a flash of sudden awareness- that's what this character experiences. Dont Miss Gett...
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Novel Thoughts: Stop Me if You've Heard This
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Monday, January 10, 2011. Stop Me if You've Heard This. Snow really is the great equalizer. Everybody's lawn the same, everybody's car. The snow gobbles up the differences. And it is rare here, rare enough that everything is closed, except a few gas stations. It is also book weather.forget beach reading, snow reading. Is the real heavy lifting. I'll leave with some favorite snow quotes:. It is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. - Sylvia Plath. Posted by Mindy Friddle.
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Novel Thoughts: April 2012
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Thursday, April 12, 2012. New Blog . . . I have a new blog. On my new website. Please visit me there. Thanks! Otto thanks you, too. Posted by Mindy Friddle. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). New Blog . . . Writing and Gardening Blogs. A Good Blog is Hard to Find. Buzz, Balls and Hype. I'm the author of THE GARDEN ANGEL. St Martin's Press/Picador) and SECRET KEEPERS. To read excerpts from my novels, interviews with authors, and book reviews. Find me on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter. Firefly...
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Novel Thoughts: February 18th Book Inn Luncheon
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Thursday, February 3, 2011. February 18th Book Inn Luncheon. I love events in January and February because there are- rarely- any temptations to go outside and bask in the sun or sweat at weed pulling. The Garden Angel, unflappable. It's book weather, and book club discussion season. My next opportunity is the Author's Luncheon at Book Inn. In the Columbia, SC area, so if you're in central South Carolina or want to take a drive, I'd probably* love to see you. Here are the where's and when's:. St Martin's...
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Novel Thoughts: December 2010
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Guest Post: A Good Blog is Hard to Find. I've included a little more detail about the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. Today on A Good Blog is Hard to Find. Including how to nominate a southern author for next year's award. See my previous post here, "My Arm is Purple," for details on how SECRET KEEPERS. And speaking of purple arms- well, sort of- my toes are blue. Photo credit: Red and the Peanut. But they do. Rather cheerfully. And they sing, too! Links to this post.
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The Garden Plog: Almost haiku
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My garden plot blog to chronicle the vagaries of my own little acre and the stuff I love. Thursday, March 15, 2007. Ball hits Smith low on the pads. The fielding side appeals in unison. The Umpire raises the dreaded finger. A tribute to the Cricket World Cup. (I didn't write it, but it sounds good.). Labels: Cricket world cup. Posted by Keena @ 1:45 PM. My garden plot blog to chronicle the vagaries of my own little acre and the stuff I love. Illinois, United States. View my complete profile.
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The Garden Plog: March 2006
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My garden plot blog to chronicle the vagaries of my own little acre and the stuff I love. Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Almost all the stuff I've sown has started to come up. Woo hoo! Now if they'll just live long enough to plant out. (bigger woo hoo to come). Back to sorting files now. Posted by Keena @ 10:26 AM. Thursday, March 09, 2006. Posted by Keena @ 10:20 AM. Wednesday, March 08, 2006. Posted by Keena @ 10:47 AM. My garden plot blog to chronicle the vagaries of my own little acre and the stuff I love.
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The Garden Plog: February 2007
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My garden plot blog to chronicle the vagaries of my own little acre and the stuff I love. Wednesday, February 28, 2007. The tomato, leek and onion seeds were sown Monday night. I have more pop bottles to carve up this evening, since the Mr. will be bowling tonight. He objects to the squeals they make as I slaughter them. At the moment the garden is still covered in snow drift, but hopefully I can get out there soon and put down more black plastic. Posted by Keena @ 1:55 PM. Friday, February 16, 2007.