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Many Characters Are Totally From Inside My Noggin
But Some Are Considerably Inspired by Real People I Know By Jeff Salter Topic: Have you ever based a character on a real person? Have you ever used a TV or movie character as inspiration for a character in your … Continue reading
Posted in Books, characters, Characters based on real people, Jeff Salter
Tagged Greatest Generation
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He Reminds Me of Someone…
This week’s prompt is one I suggested. I asked, “Have you ever based a character on a real person? Have you ever used a TV or movie character as inspiration for a character in your stories?” Fortunately, I came up … Continue reading
Repeat, Read, Repeat
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
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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New Stars, Old Stars
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
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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Stringing Along
THIS WEEK:Do you enjoy reading SERIES fiction? Is there a “magic” number of titles in that series that you find most agreeable? Moreover, do you WRITE series fiction? How many titles do YOU plan in your series? I most definitely … Continue reading
Posted in advice, authors, book review, Books, characters, collections, cozy mystery, editing, imagination, inspiration, novels, plots, protagonists, reading, reading preferences, romance, Tonette Joyce
Tagged Betsy the Vampire Queen, Geoff Rodkey, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, Janet Evanovich, Parnell Hall, Percy Jackson books, Septimus Heap, Stephanie Plum, Story set inthe Caribbean, The Chronicles of Egg, the Puzzle Lady, Tonya Hurley
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Clever, Fresh, Enjoyable
My Review of Adrienne Giordano’s “Dog Collar Crime” By Jeff Salter [Note: It was about six years ago that I read this cool novel and wrote this review (for Am*zon)… and I realized this week that I’d never posted it … Continue reading