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Monthly Archives: January 2011
January Book Winners!
Congratulations to Trish and Lynn Hauptmann, our January Book Winners! Trish, you have your choice of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO or BLINDNESS and Lynn will receive the alternate choice. February books will be posted tomorrow. Congratulations! Sue
15. VOICE
YOUR Novel! Few things convey the writer’s skill more dramatically than the voice the writer uses when he or she writes his/her novel. For something so important, voice is difficult to define, but let me give it a try. (You … Continue reading
MAKING STRANGE
Wild Word Friday! When my family first moved to our little town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, some of the phrases and words used by local folks weren’t familiar to us. One of these phrases was MAKING STRANGE. When you were introduced … Continue reading
Posted in Wild Word Friday, Words
Tagged Making Strange, Sue Harrison, wild word Fridays
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Day Break
We have friends coming north to visit for the weekend. The guys are going to participate in the Walleye Jamboree. So at “Day Break” they’ll be out on the ice, fishing, but we girls will take a “Day Break” a little later … Continue reading
Posted in North Country
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Fish
Tonight the 3-day Walleye Jamboree, held yearly on our bay, begins at 1 a.m. It looks like a little city out there with all the shanties on the ice. Now why anybody would get up at 1 a.m. to fish … Continue reading
A Hospital Day
Today my mom had her second cataract surgery. All went well, and that is due to a very fine doctor and an excellent and understanding hospital staff. My mom has dementia. It’s not Alzheimer’s. She knows that she doesn’t know. … Continue reading
Posted in Blurbs and Blessings, healing
Tagged cataract surgery, dementia, War Memorial Hospital
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14. POV/3rd Person
YOUR Novel! If you have decided to write your novel in third person POV, you have a few more POV decisions to make. You know what is going on in each of your character’s heads, but you have to decide … Continue reading
FLUSTRATED!
Wild Word Friday! Recently my friend, Lynn, and I were discussing a topic dear to both of us – words – and she brought up the word FLUSTRATED. She mentioned that FLUSTRATED is a combination of flustered and frustrated and … Continue reading
Thief
Our mail today included more than bills and ad flyers. I received an advanced reader copy (ARC) of Linda Windsor’s new novel, Thief, from her publisher David C. Cook. They’ve asked me for an endorsement (a blurb)! I can’t wait … Continue reading
Posted in Blurbs and Blessings, Books, Currently Reading..., Writers
Tagged Advanced Read, Linda Windsor, Sue Harrison, Thief
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A Little Help?
Help! I’m working on a novel (romantic suspense) that includes a ten-year-old boy who is a musical prodigy. He is very gifted but dorky and shy. By the end of the book, he will also be a hero. I’m having a … Continue reading