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Flooding the Internet with compassion
On Friday, February 20, a remarkable series of blogs will be posted worldwide detailing the topic of compassion: what it means, how it plays out – or doesn’t – in today’s society, its benefits, and the dangers of its lack. The effort was sparked by an early January blog post by a woman writing as…
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Regrets, I’ve had (more than) a few
There’s something about the death of a family member, even those only-at-holidays/weddings/funerals connections, that stirs up a wealth of regrets: for not making more an effort to stay close, for neglecting that last birthday card, for having to look up in the dusty genealogy records exactly how old they were. Family, however distant, is still…
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The longest shortest month of the year
February. Bleh. I should be doing my own (always restrained) version of a happy dance this week: FORTY & OUT is in audition stages for an audio book. I topped 75K on the follow-up story for Jadz and friends, and the Deadly Duo at Deadly Writes Publishing is eager to read the remainder. An agent…
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Writing for me (us), myself (we), and I (them)
Consider your audience – one of the rules of writing I teach my students every semester, and it’s not one to learn and ignore when I get home from class and return to fiction. My latest completed novel (as yet unpublished) FATAL ERRORS is full of geekiness. It’s a balancing act adding enough tech details…
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Writing and the Devil’s Cup
When it comes to beverage choice of the literati, the romantic image that comes to my mind is a smoky Parisian bar or Hemingway’s beachfront dive and hard liquor. I would have bet that coffeehouses were a relatively new addition to the scene – maybe because I’m not a coffee drinker? Our daughter’s recent fascination…
CL Pauwels at Large 