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Weekly Writing Prompts 11/29/15

Welcome to this week’s writing prompts! With Thanksgiving over for another year and Christmas planning in full swing, this week’s prompts are all about the…

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Weekly Writing Prompts 11/22/15

It’s a busy week for those in the United States. With Thanksgiving on Thursday and many people travelling to be with family, Black Friday shopping…

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Agent McGee: Catching Dirtbags On Screen and In Print

In my last post, I wrote about my favorite television show of all-time, I Love Lucy, and a favorite episode where she writes a novel….

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Four Things Lucy Ricardo Knows About Writing

I Love Lucy is my all-time favorite television show. Although I wasn’t around for the original airing of the series, I started watching reruns as…

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Let the NaNo Madness Begin

Happy Halloween to all you ghouls and goblins! While all the super heroes, zombies, and princesses roam the town in a sugar induced rampage, writers…

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Why I Write

Today is National Day on Writing. This year’s theme is “Why I write?’ I’ve thought a lot about this over the last few years, and…

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Why I Write

Today is National Day on Writing. This year’s theme is “Why I write?’ I’ve thought a lot about this over the last few years, and…

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Location, Location, Location – Part 4

In the final installment of this series on how personal experience influences an author’s choice of setting, I fast forward from Willa Cather to a…

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Location, Location, Location – Part 3

Continuing my visit to Red Cloud, Nebraska, the childhood home of Willa Cather, we move from in town to the country roads north of town….

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Location, Location, Location – Part 3

Continuing my visit to Red Cloud, Nebraska, the childhood home of Willa Cather, we move from in town to the country roads north of town….

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