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Blog: Gretchen Craig Topics:fiction, writers, novels
Monthly Archives: December 2014
How do you get started as a writer?
As a senior in most every sense, drat it, I’m asked pretty often how one gets started if one wants to write. There really is no great mystery. The answer is just to sit yourself down, open a file (or … Continue reading
Why write a book without a wizard, or a romance?
My son, who especially likes Jim Butcher’s series The Dresden Files, says he doesn’t see why anyone would write a book without a wizard in it. I don’t see why anyone would write a book without a little romance in … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Clancy, Crusie, Evermore, Follett, New Orleans, Romance, slavery, Southern, wizards
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Ordinary People Doing Bad Things
I was trying to make sense of people who live innocuous lives on one plane and yet do really horrible things on another. I’m not talking about the Ted Bundy types who know they’re doing evil. I mean the ones … Continue reading