Tag Archives: Star Wars

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

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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

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Abundant Advice for Aspiring Authors

This week: What advice would you give to an aspiring author? I actually have a list. There have been many who talk to me about writing. I also have had many young writers around or in touch with me, so … Continue reading

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Guest: Author Elise Sax

I decided to look through my Kindle content to find a writer to interview, and found a fair number of books, but touching on a few pages here and there, nothing impressed me until I hit Elise Sax’s “An Affair … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Space-Chicken

This week, one of the foxes asked, “Would you travel to the Moon or Mars (assuming you could return)? Growing up, I loved to watch Star Trek on TV. Then the movies came out and I enjoyed several of them. … Continue reading

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The Egg and I

This week we are talking about movies we have seen because we read the books on which they were based, Next time, we’ll discuss reading books after having seen its movie. I am not only an avid reader, I love … Continue reading

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Writers, Write Right!

This is a “free” week here at Four Foxes, One Hound but I have been busy all week. I was stuck for a topic until I took a moment to grab a book from a bag that was handed to … Continue reading

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Gimme Some Space–Man!

The topic of the week is: Would I want to travel to outer space? Nuh,uh! I would love to see Earth from a Space Shuttle or a space station, but I don’t really even want to go that far…shoot, I … Continue reading

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Star Wars

Star Wars Well, not wars, exactly. This week the topics-list said that we were to pick a movie star, past or present, that we’d like to hang out with…and why. That is a very hard choice for all of us, … Continue reading

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