Tag: family
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What I’m reading: Scot on the Rocks
Scot on the Rocks, #3 in Catriona McPherson’s A Last Ditch mystery series, tackles some weird family dynamics, too (see my earlier posts on my novels’ theme of family), but with more laughs than I can manage. As I always told my students, writing humor well is tough! McPherson has that knack in spades, and…
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Adult sibling rivalry or BFFs?
Next up in my exploration of the theme of family in my novels (namely the broken, dysfunctional, non-traditional ones) is sibling rivalry. In Forty & Out, I introduced Jadz’s older sister Betty, who nurses an inexplicable grudge against Jadz. No matter how much Jadz does to bail out her once-close sib, Betty takes it as…
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Ties that bind
As writers, we’re urged to find/create themes to our stories – some deeper meaning threading through the obvious storyline. I never gave it much thought when writing my novels, but now that I’ve completed four and started number five, it’s become obvious (actually hit me somewhere between #3 and #4): my underlying theme is family…
CL Pauwels at Large 