Tag: writing
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What I’m reading: The Writing Retreat
I’ve been a fan and multiple-time participant in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) since 2005. In fact, all four of my novels had their start during what I’ve always described as a “sadistic” 30-day challenge. Julia Bartz takes that event – and the sadism – and ratchets it up several notches in The Writing Retreat.…
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Unanswerable questions
Family still haunts my thoughts and my writing – division, dysfunction, lack of communication, the many elephants in the room. And as we say farewell to yet another family elder, the questions continue to pile up: And what questions remain for those few elders still with us – that we should ask now, before it’s…
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What I’m reading: Montaigne in Barn Boots
As a more focused companion to The Socrates Express I wrote about earlier, Michael Perry’s Montaigne in Barn Boots covers just one of Weiner’s philosophers: Michel de Montaigne (more formally, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592), often referred to as the father of the modern essay. Oddly enough, since he’s such a vaunted name these days…
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Finding my way through a first draft
While I wait for my publisher to announce a launch date for my next novel (Fatal Errors – new series, new characters, new setting…watch this blog for details coming soon!), I’m following standard writing advice and working on the next book. Sort of. Stumbling through that painful first draft is more like it. I’m a…
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What I’m reading: Daisy Darker
My biggest (only?) regret at writing mysteries – and reading/watching so many of them, is that it’s really hard to find one that surprises me. Usually I’ve got the plot (mostly) figured out and the villain nailed long before the big reveal. Not so with Alice Feeney’s Daisy Darker…boy, did this one keep me guessing!…
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Boys of Summer*
My next stop in exploring the theme of family in my novels (namely the broken, dysfunctional, non-traditional ones) is more light-hearted: baseball! And since most pitchers and catchers report this week, spring is just around the corner. All three books in my “Toledo Trilogy” take my MCs out to the ballgame – namely, to see…
CL Pauwels at Large 