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January | 2015 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. Starting at the Beginning. January 31, 2015. 8230;or at least finding out where (and when) the beginning actually is. Writing the narrative has prompted this revival of exposition-thinking and character adjusting, though I think I may have strayed (a bit) from the original tone of the series saga, straying into the subplot genres. Getting back on track is now the paramount task at hand, if I’m to actually! Confession of a Writer. January 24, 2015. Writin...
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NaNoWriMo (2015) Update #2 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. NaNoWriMo (2015) Update #2. November 14, 2015. So, I’ve been spelling NaNoWriMo wrong since I first delved into this challenge. The first vowel in writing, “wri” keeps with that abbreviation. So, onward we go. So thus we return to (relative) reality. [The quasi-absurd, spontaneously created subplot of the Land of Exposition follies will remain, quasi-absurd and spontaneously created.]. Even though I quasi-officially announced a (new) satiric (? Novel pro...
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April | 2015 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. Camp NaNoWritMo (Spring 2015) Update #4. April 25, 2015. Here we are once more, at the home stretch in the Camp NaNoWritMo experience (at least the spring edition), and curiously enough, some actual! Writing (well, technically speaking/writing, actual! Nothing like a deadline looming over the horizon to motivate the Muses and Plot Bunnies into action. Of course, it’s not as if there hasn’t been any actual! For those who have read some/most/all (? Finish ...
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December | 2014 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. December 27, 2014. December 27, 2014. So here we are at the 100th entry for this blog, (conveniently) coinciding with the last weekly entry for 2014. As the calendar year slowly winds down, it seems a good enough time to reflect on the achievements during the past year and to contemplate the challenges for the coming year in my writer’s journey. Thus far, not too much has happened, actually! Then there was the challenge to write a story outside of my gen...
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NaNoWriMo (2015) Update #1 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. NaNoWriMo (2015) Update #1. November 7, 2015. November 8, 2015. So, it’s that time of year (again) – NaNoWriMo (or National Novel Writing Month) – the time when thousands (millions? Of writers of all ages, genres and techniques (along with all the myriad of other categories/types out there in the universe) attempt to write a (50,000 word) novel within 30 days. It isn’t easy. Well, at least not for me. 8221;) I probably have. Yeah, I’m in a quasi-. State ...
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July | 2015 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. Camp NaNoWritMo [Summer 2015] Update #4. July 25, 2015. Writing will cease. In the immediate future, there will (most likely) be intermittent hiatuses with the actual! Writing, and the plotting and pondering will always be a never-ending, complex occurrence. As for. 50 Shades of Sunset,. Written (with little to no editing) more this time ’round. So that’s a quasi-victory in and of itself. Six days left until month’s end and a good portion of the na...
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February | 2015 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. Removing Complications and Distractions. February 28, 2015. Romance is out (again). In re(re) plotting and pondering the state of my series saga whilst snuggled up in a nice, warm corner at the coffee bar within the Character Development Inn in the Land of Exposition, I plotted out and pondered over the various narrative arcs that could/might occur if my (male) main character were married. I managed to think up no less than nine (! With the removal of th...
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Brady vs. Partridge: The Bardy Bunch at 54 Below – June 21, 2015 | Close Encounters of the Theatrical Kind
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Close Encounters of the Theatrical Kind. Observations, Musings and Reflections About Theatre. June 23, 2015. Brady vs. Partridge: The Bardy Bunch at 54 Below June 21, 2015. The Bradys and Partridges are movin’ on up. Oh wait wrong (classic) TV show. As mentioned in previous blog posts, I’ve been a fan of. The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady. Avenue) last spring. The latest stop on its (hopefully inevitable) journey to the Great White Way reached 54 Below (located at 54. Were sung...
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November | 2014 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. NaNoWritMo (2014) Update #5. November 29, 2014. As of 7:47 PM stands at 4,443 words, which adds up to two and one-thirds chapters. The bare bone synopsis of. Written at the start of NaNoWritMo) is as follows:. 8220;Girl meets Boy. Boy likes Girl. Girl likes Other Boy. They all attend Comic Con. Hilarity ensues.”. Whether or not any of that. Happens is still in question, but for now I’ll just leave it as such]. Happy ever after ending. I have a (purposely...
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September | 2015 | Musings of a Mystery Novelist
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Musings of a Mystery Novelist. A Writer's Journey. An Unexpected (Yet Welcome) Change. September 26, 2015. Change is (quasi-literally) in the air. So it’s officially Fall, and pumpkin spice everything reins quasi-supreme (though I will admit the Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks is just OK – I do like their new Toasted Graham Latte…). The next round of NaNoWritMo looms in the distant horizon, and the Muses are lurking about, muttering to themselves. Yeah, that was a lame joke, but an inevitable one.].
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