Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Normandy Landing: Off The Tiles

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Following on from previous weeks, we’d bought the two hundred year-old uninhabitable shell in Normandy, we’d driven up from the South of France to take possession, now we had to live in it. Problem number one: we had sitting tenants … Continue reading →


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Beyond Grimm Goes to the Movies

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

By Sue Lange When Deborah and Phyllis put out the call for stories for an anthology based on known fairy tales, I hesitated. Fairy tales? Those fables our ancestors thought up sometime after the dawn of civilization and used to … Continue reading →


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Writing in the Digital Age: Unplugging is Hard to Do When You’re Hooked on Instant Access

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

The internet has been around several decades now, and the changes to information access it has wrought are mind boggling: blogs can be shared instantly, and round the world on FaceBook and Twitter; cell phones have morphed into smart phones; … Continue reading →


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Blogging the Magna Carta #7

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Blogging the Magna Carta #7 In today’s world the people of Western Europe and North America treasure their elected governments.  We rely upon them to act for us since we are far too populace for every citizen to gather and … Continue reading →


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Contraception

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

The discussion is about contraception: Hormonal birth control pills, taken by women, chosen by women, under the control of women. The discussion is about contraception. Hormonal birth control pills can be used to combat acne, endometriosis, irregular periods. Nevertheless, the … Continue reading →


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Cultivating Creativity

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

by Nancy Jane Moore I’m a fan of the radio program “On Being,” hosted by Krista Tippett. It comes on a 6 AM on Sunday morning here, so I frequently wake up by listening to it. Last Sunday she interviewed … Continue reading →


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“Book As Event” aka Writer’s Block

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

By Linda Nagata (this is an updated version of a post that originally appeared at Hahví.net) If you’re a writer, you probably read a lot of books and posts on the art, craft, and psychology of writing. I know I … Continue reading →


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Dueling with Words: Dialogue and Action, Part 1

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

My annual stint in an online writers’ conference (the Catholic Writer’s Conference, of which I’ve been a non-Catholoic guest for the past several years) has me doing a chat workshop on writing dialogue and action. And, as often happens, this … Continue reading →


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Weird Science: Virgin Birth

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Less than 0.1% of vertebrate species can produce offspring asexually. Happens all the time among the lesser species–insects, amoeba, etc. But us backbone types? No. It can happen, though, according to BBC’s Earth News. A kimodo dragon here, a hammerhead … Continue reading →


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Writing Nowadays–Teens and Texting for YA Writers

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Continuing our series on what writers of YA fiction need to know about schools . . . Writing Nowadays–Teens and Texting Every so often I read a YA book written in the post-text era in which the author ignores texting.  … Continue reading →


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