About Tonette Joyce
Tonette was a once-fledgling lyricists-bookkeeper, turned cook/baker/restaurateur and is now exploring different writing venues,(with a stage play recently completed). She has had poetry and nonfiction articles published in the last few years. Tonette has been married to her only serious boyfriend for more than thirty years and she is, as one person described her, family-oriented almost to a fault. Never mind how others have described her, she is,(shall we say), a sometime traditionalist of eclectic tastes.She has another blog : "Tonette Joyce:Food,Friends,Family" here at WordPress.She and guests share tips and recipes for easy entertaining and helps people to be ready for almost anything.
This week we were asked if we wrote any characters based on real people. I know we have touched on this at one time in the past, but as I was running through my head about characters that I had … Continue reading →
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Tagged creating characters, lyrics. POV, modifying actual events in writing, muliple storylines, POV in short stories, songwriting, Writing about family, Writing non-fiction
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As I often do, I looked for something to break up the series I was listening to and found a gem. Apparently, this book was a big hit when it was published at the end of 2017. I believe that … Continue reading →
Posted in agents, authors, Books, characters, descriptions, disability, Faith-centered stories, fantasy, favorites, gifts, helping others, Miscellaneous, paranormal, publishing, reading, romance, Tonette Joyce
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Tagged Al Bowlly, Cecelia Ahern, Dean Martin, Down's Syndrome protagonist, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ruth Hogan, supernatural stories, The Keeper of Lost Things, The Very Thought of You, Ther's No Place Like Here
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This week The Hound asked: If you could spend one evening in a multi-millionaire’s home:1. what’s the first thing you’d want to see?2. what would you expect to find? NOT expect to find?3. what could ruin that experience (of spending … Continue reading →
Posted in America, art, authors, Daily life, descriptions, experiences, lifestyles, memories, personal libraries, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce
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Tagged gardens, homes, Housekeepers, lifestyles, medica rooms, millionaires, Millionaires' homes, parlors, party houses, personal staff, powder rooms
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It’s Free Week and I want to revisit something that although I have addressed in the past, it has come up a few times quite recently here on 4F,1H: You can’t judge books by their TV shows or movies, (and … Continue reading →
Posted in advice, Anthologies, audiobooks, authors, blogging, book review, book series, Books, characters, chicken, collections, contemporary, cozy mystery, descriptions, free week, libraries, Miscellaneous, movies, novels, Patricia Kiyono, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading, reading preferences, series, Tonette Joyce, TV, TV series, writers
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Tagged Agatha Raisin, Changing books for movies, changing books for TV, Forrest Gump, Hamish Macbeth, M.C.Beaton, OPTIONING written works, Rosie Dunne, The Poor Relations, The Time Traveler's Wife, translating books to movies, translating books to TV, Writing for movies, Writing for TV, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
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The Monday Fox asked: “What’s first on your to-do list for 2023?” Lists are good for me, especially with all that goes on in my life. I used to have a phenomenal memory and never made a grocery list, copy … Continue reading →
Posted in advice, big plans, blessings, collections, decisions, experiences, Family, goals, helping others, holidays, inspiration, Life, lifestyles, Lists, Miscellaneous, new skills, Tonette Joyce, using talents
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Tagged Finding room, Lists, multitasking, organization, Storage
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This is not a ‘review’ week, but this one won’t wait. It’s about a story that all of you know, one that I thought that I did in its entirety. I also thought that I had read the complete story, … Continue reading →
Posted in advice, big plans, book review, Books, characters, Christmas, Christmas books, classics, creating scenes, decisions, descriptions, editing, Faith-centered stories, free week, helping others, history, imagination, inspiration, inspirational stories, Life, movies, novels, publishing, reading, titles, Tonette Joyce, traditions, winter, writers
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, FULL verion of A Christmas Carol, Missing exerpts from A Christmas Carol
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The two best Christmas gifts we ever received??? This is a hard one. As I said last week, my mother made my early childhood Christmases magical. Aside from the inevitable doll, nothing really stands out. I remember each of the … Continue reading →
Posted in blessings, childhood, Christmas, experiences, Family, gifts, holidays, lifestyles, Tonette Joyce, traditions
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Tagged Christmas dishes, Christmas dolls, figurines, presents
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Just a short post today because I had not anticipated how what should have been a simple procedure turned out to be a drawn-out recovery from oral surgery. Had I realized, I would have gotten my post done earlier, like … Continue reading →
Posted in America, book series, characters, classics, descriptions, dialogue, Family, favorite books, memories, movies, procrastination, reading, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, TV series, using talents, writers, writing
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Tagged Andor, Boba Fett, discussing writing, Disney, Disney Plus Famous actors, GOOD acting, Obi-Wan Kenobi, reading together, Star Wars, Star Wars series, Watching together
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“How does/did your family countdown to Christmas? Did/do you have any special family traditions?” Ch-ch-ch-changes! My mother decorated early. We always got a huge Christmas tree, one carefully selected and as close to prefect as possible. Seriously, my generally tight-fisted, … Continue reading →
Posted in America, blessings, Christmas, Christmas books, Dealing with stress, decisions, experiences, Family, favorites, food, guests, Holiday, holidays, Life, memories, Miscellaneous, movies, Tonette Joyce, traditions
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(I may have said all of this before, but for once, I am not taking time to check. Bear with me.) I was always opposed to Christmas decorations and Christmas music before Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving, but in the last … Continue reading →
Posted in advice, big plans, blessings, Books, Christmas, Christmas books, decisions, descriptions, experiences, Family, favorites, food, free week, Holiday, holidays, inspiration, inspirational stories, Kindle, libraries, lifestyles, memories, movies, novels, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, traditions, winter, Words
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Tagged Christmas books, Christmas movies, Christmas traditions, Has Gruber, Nakatomi Tower
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