I just finished reading a Nevil Shute book, The Far Country, that showed up on Amazon for 99¢. Nevil Shute wrote novels in the evening. By day he was an excellent aerospace engineer. His career started in England but he moved to Australia after World War II. I have read Trustee from the Toolroom and [...]
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Managing extra characters …
I like to pay attention to the way that other writers deal with certain common events in stories. One of them is the problem caused by more than one suitor. Fairy tales have one way of dealing with extra men… But it seems a little drastic in real life. L. M. Montgomery, author of the [...]
Thinking about writing by thinking about what I’ve read…
Sometimes I write Friday's post on Thursday morning because I'm often a bit tired on Friday morning, after playing with my grandchildren in 95 degree heat, but I had too many ideas this time and couldn't settle on just one. Meanwhile, I've been reading four different book series on Amazon Kindle and finished several new [...]
Iowa attractions
I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
Happy Fourth of July!
I managed to write 1200 words on my Novel-in-Progress. Jessamyn is almost out of the hayloft. As soon as daylight comes she can jump down. I’m happy about that. Writing is tough. So, in an effort to see how others have done things I’d like to do, I looked up L. M. Montgomery on the [...]
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