I try to end each of my chapters with a cliffhanger. It’s part of a pattern in my work day. I write a chapter until I hit page 15. At that point, I’m watching for a cliffhanger event. It might … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2017
I’ve been rereading Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels obsessively, as I reread everything on my keeper shelf, and just came across his mention of egg and anchovy sandwiches.
Continue readingby Brenda W. Clough Movie musicals are rare as the unicorn these days. When was the last time you saw them singing and dancing in an original production on a movie screen, except in children’s animation? So La La Land is a … Continue reading
Because my husband is a recording engineer and works in one of the minor fiefdoms of a major entertainment organization, we sometimes get to see films we might not otherwise have stumbled upon. There have been a couple of wonderful films … Continue reading
I’m not saying that self-editing is bad. It’s not. It’s just we often do it while writing and that’s when it’s evil. Sometimes we do it when we aren’t aware and that’s when it’s really awful. When I first started … Continue reading
Usually I meet the new year with a measure of joy and hope. This year, not so much. I am weary. I feel like this last year was a hard slog up a difficult mountain. My creativity suffered. My mind … Continue reading
I think we can agree that 2016 was a sucky year all around. Death has been busy among us. But I would like to mention British author Richard Adams. The Black Rabbit of Inle came for him in December. He wrote many books, but is unquestionably best known for Watership Down, his first novel and his masterpiece.
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