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Category Archives: Fantasy vs Reality
If You Like Pina Coladas…Escape
This week we are asked about our favorite place to ‘escape’, I’d be very happy to tell you about choosing between my private beach getaway and my yacht, that is, if I had them. (What a wonderful dilemma that would … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, blessings, Books, Daily life, Dealing with stress, experiences, Family, Fantasy vs Reality, imagination, inspiration, Life, Miscellaneous, novels, personal libraries, Random thoughts, reading, research, Tonette Joyce, Words, writers, writing
Tagged backyard wildlife, escape, escapism, sunsets, yars
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Guest Author: Kay Springsteen and “Arachne’s Tapestry” from Gateways to the Paranormal
About a month ago, our resident hound and I celebrated a new anthology release from Dingbat Publishing called Gateways to the Paranormal. We were among the fourteen contributing to this anthology of sweet paranormal stories. Also among this group is … Continue reading
Review: “What IF”
I was looking for something a little intelligent, but lighter than what I had been listening to, while working around the house, and Randall Monroe’s “What If” filled the bill. Monroe is a trained physicist and a short-time former contract … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, book review, Books, careers, Compilations, decisions, experiences, Fantasy vs Reality, helping others, imagination, inspiration, jobs, non-fiction, Random thoughts, reading preferences, reviews, Tonette Joyce, using talents, What if, writing
Tagged funny science, NASA scientist, Randall Monroe, random questions, scientific answers
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It’s Me… Sort of
Our Friday Fox asked, “Do your characters tend to have skills that you have yourself? Do you write about people who do things that you wish that you could manage?” The answer to both questions is YES. Almost all of … Continue reading
Posted in author's life, characters, Fantasy vs Reality, Life, Patricia Kiyono, romance, The Author Life
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Yes, That Really Happened
Our question for this week is, “Have you used something that happened to you in real life in any of your stories? Did you change it at all?” I’ve often remarked that each of my female protagonists shares something with … Continue reading
What a Character!
This week, one of our foxes asked, “Has anyone ever asked you to add them to one of your stories?” “Have you told anyone that you were basing a character on them?” I’ve based many of my characters on people … Continue reading
Not So Easy Being Android
Maybe you thought impersonating an android was easy By Jeff Salter It’s “free” week here at 4F1H, so for my Hound Day post, I’m reaching back to spring of 2018, when this novel was released by TouchPoint Press. Concept: Amateur … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy vs Reality, Jeff Salter, Miscellaneous
Tagged Android, replicant
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Real World Distractions
This week, our hound offers a topic familiar to most people. He asks, “What (if anything) drains/blocks your potential productivity? What can you do to correct this?” The first question is easy to answer. Family responsibilities (for me) have doubled … Continue reading