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I have always been aware of how a simple gift can lift a spirit, how a kind remark or compliment can make a day, or even be remembered for years by the recipient. I also know that a mean action … Continue reading
So, You Want to Be a Writer?
This week’s topic: What advice would you give to an aspiring author? Last week, I participated in a faculty writing retreat at the university where I teach. Normally, these retreats take place on campus, but due to stay-at-home orders we … Continue reading
Posted in authors, inspiration, Patricia Kiyono, phrases, Preparing for writing, The Author Life, writers, writing
Tagged advice, quotes from successful people
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Guest: Author Jeanne Matthews
Today I am pleased to have as my guest Jeanne Matthews, best known for her Dinah Pelerin international mysteries. Welcome, Jeanne! We have only become Facebook Friends recently yet we had met before. Jeanne, you probably don’t remember meeting … Continue reading
Posted in America, author interview, author's life, authors, blogging, book covers, Books, careers, characters, decisions, dialogue, Guest, Guest author, history, imagination, inspiration, interview, jobs, Life, novels, phrases, teaching, Tonette Joyce
Tagged Australia, Bet Your Bones, Bonereapers, Bones of Contention, der Indianer, Dinah Pelerin Mysteries, Doomsday seed vault, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Her Boyfriend's Bones, Jeanne Matthews, Norway, paralegals, teaching, The Southern United States, Where the Bones Are Buried, Writer's Digest
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Last Rant, New Wishes
Christmas week and a free week here at 4F, 1H, yet anything it’s been anything but ‘free’ here. I needed to dash off an idea and decided to use one that has been bothering me for some time: writers who … Continue reading
Posted in blessings, Books, experiences, Family, free week, Holiday, holidays, inspiration, memories, Miscellaneous, novels, phrases, reading, Tonette Joyce
Tagged foreign phrases, Klingon, Qapla, translations
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Misuse of Terminology
After busy months of becoming a freshman in high school in a new town, my grandson finally got back into his reading groove and back to having me reading a series with him. After the mostly tame and always ‘bad-guys-become-good’ … Continue reading
Posted in authors, book review, Books, characters, dystopian worlds, imagination, Miscellaneous, phrases, reading, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, traditions, villains, writing
Tagged Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Demons, Harry Potter, Leo Tolstoy, Midgrade books, mythological creatures, Percy Jackson, Septimus Heap, speed-reading, Taran Matharu, The Battlemage, The Inquisition, The Novice, The Summoner Trilogy, War and Peace, Woody Allen quote, YA books
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Repeating Stories, Not in the Outhouse
Free Week and I want to talk about a few choice phrases. I used the term “telling tales out of school” a week or so ago. It popped right out; I had not said the phrase or heard it in … Continue reading
Posted in experiences, Life, Miscellaneous, phrases, Tonette Joyce
Tagged "Being privy to", "Telling tales out of school", Old-fashioned phrases
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