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POP Go the References
When we were discussing advice to young, new or would-be writers, I omitted some pieces of advice. One is: Avoid ‘pop’ references. As far as I am concerned, they age your work and make it seem irrelevant very quickly. Of … Continue reading
Posted in authors, big plans, book review, Books, characters, Christmas, dialogue, helping others, history, imagination, Miscellaneous, movies, Random thoughts, reading, research, Tonette Joyce, writers
Tagged All About Eve, Bette Davis, Cruel Intentions, Dangerous Liaisons, Now Voyager, pop references, Sean Connery impressions, Shakespeare, songwriting, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Hunt For Red October, The Odd Couple, Top Gun, TV shows, Updating published works
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Alternative Occupations
You can no longer work in the book industry: what do you do to earn a living? This is the stuff that dreams are made on, as Shakespeare wrote, (and was misquoted in The Maltese Falcon as “made of” and … Continue reading
Posted in art, author's life, big plans, Books, careers, clothing, collections, decisions, experiences, Family, food, goals, imagination, jobs, Life, memories, Miscellaneous, Tonette Joyce
Tagged Shakespeare, The Maltese Falcon
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Let’s Talk About Endings
By Jeff Salter Our blogging question this week is whether we prefer happily ever after (HEA) or happy for now (HFN) endings… or “tragic” endings in a story. First let me clarify two things: I respond to this question as … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged endings, HEA, Henry IV, Henry V, HFN, Romeo and Juliet, serials, Shakespeare, soaps, Superman, the end
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Putting the Cart Before the Horse?
Topic of the week: Have you ever read books because of the movies based on them? How did they measure up? Preparing for this week’s post, I was really worried. As I’d mentioned, I don’t watch many movies, so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, movies, Patricia Kiyono
Tagged books, Cider House Rules, Erich Segal, family, friends, Love Story, Maze Runner, movies, Patricia Kiyono, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
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After the book, had to see the film
Movies I’ve Watched Because I Loved the Books By Jeff Salter This is Part 1 of a two-week focus on movies and books. Next week, we’ll be looking at books we’ve read because we saw and enjoyed a movie. But … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Band of Brothers, Eye of the Needle, Franco Zeffirelli, Frederick Forsyth, Harper Lee, Ian Fleming, Jack Higgins, James Bond, John Berendt, John Cusack, Ken Follet, Kenneth Branagh, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Robert Ludlum, Shakespeare, Stephen Ambrose, The Bourne Identity, The Day of the Jackal, The Eagle Has Landed, To Kill a Mockingbird
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All the World is a Stage
By Jeff Salter I love (many of) Shakespeare’s plays, including Hamlet … and there are numerous lines from his plays which have entered our vocabulary. I take this opportunity to set people straight on the contextual meaning of this particular … Continue reading
Posted in authors, Jeff Salter, Life, Miscellaneous, Random thoughts, writing, youth
Tagged Beauty and the Beast, Bye Bye Birdie, Hamlet, Luv, Mimsy Were the Borogroves, Oklahoma, Performance, performances, Play, Playmakers, plays, Shakespeare, Showboat, Side By Side By Sondheim, The Boyfriend, The play’s the thing, theater, Theatre, Three Penny Opera, Uncle Vanya, Up the Down Staircase, Waiting for Godot
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Favorite author and a genre that I love
Who Are You Trying to Kid, Billy Shakespeare? By Jeff Salter I enjoy Shakespeare’s plays and I love fast-paced comedies. There’s my author and genre. And this is a review … of sorts. I hadn’t correctly … Continue reading