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Mar.15.2011
A writer who was having too many family distractions asked me, "Have you ever just had to get away somewhere to write?"
Yes, I would say my best writing happens when I take some time off and go on a brief writing sabbatical. Anywhere from a three-day weekend to five days, whatever time I...
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Mar.04.2011
Are you a "was-er"? Stop by my blog and find out. Writing Tip #31 is up. www.kellyabellbooks.com
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Mar.02.2011
I'm going to be stuck in the Arctic longer than I expected as I start this next *thriller*. And I suspect I will end there (literally) and poke my nose in more than once. I don't quite have the arrow-straight plot of my preceding thriller, though it is still more plotted than my usual writing....
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Feb.27.2011
A few weeks ago I read an article about 10 gadgets every writer needs. Remaining true to my and my husband’s ancestors (mine were "Black Bumper" Mennonite, his Old Order Amish), I am going to flout those fandangled thingamabobs and write about 10 non-electrical gadgets every writer doesn’...
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Feb.23.2011
Author: Pig agent stole my bacon book idea
By WILLIAM J. GORTA
NY Post: Spencer BurnettFIT TO BE FRIED: "I Love Corn" author Lisa Skye is suing her former agent, who she claims ripped off her idea for this bacon cookbook.
A Brooklyn cookbook author claims a literary agent...
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Feb.21.2011
Not quite sure how big a push this BIG push is, but I begin another *thriller* which I hope to complete quickly. Actually, this plot is what I had planned to use for my first *thriller*, but it got shoved aside (and rudely) by a whole different situation. And a year + later . . .
So, as I...
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Feb.21.2011
Okay, for this as of yet untitled ms.--maybe The Gravediggers?--we'll start with the exhumation of 6 or 7 bodies in 1888 RI, as the father of these people had had a disturbing dream, that he'd had an orchard (which he had) but that half of the trees in his orchard would soon die. He recognizes...
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Feb.08.2011
For some months now, I've been trying to solicit interest from agents and editors in a historically accurate World War II novel I've written. The novel - at least a third of it - was my master of lib arts project and had many eyes on it during its gestation. Since that time I've gleaned and...
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Feb.02.2011
I am unusually (for me) writing an outline for the next thriller (what we do for money, eh). It is contemporary (well - I hope it is actually before the curve) and based on news events (and my speculations). And NATO will have a finger in the pie (or the dike) along with my characters from...
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Jan.24.2011
Robert Burns letter discovered in castle
Scottish poet's 1789 letter to head of Edinburgh medical school contains early version of On Seeing a Wounded Hare
b Robert Burns's unpublished letter to Professor James Gregory was found in Floors Castle in Kelso. Photograph: Angus Blackburn/PA
An...
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