My concerns are family and friends and even an employer, but those are PERSONAL. If I don't face prison for my opinions, I have freedom of speech.
“The Devil’s Mistress”
All things considered, even if she had flopped across the pond that would have been far better for her: Miss Baarová should indeed have gone to Hollywood.
This Fourth
In 2020 as Americans yet again we are extra-engaged in reflecting upon what we were and what we are, what we believe, whether we really act on what we state we believe, and how we may put such beliefs into better practice.
The Heart Of Writing
Yesterday was something of a "milestone" in writing the planned new book. I have all of the chapters "framed" from beginning to end...
The Lone Writer Posts
I am sure I am not alone in how I have found that, since the March "lockdown," I am spending more time on social media than ever.
By The Book
I knew a Frenchwoman with diabetes and more than once she did that right in front of me, so it ended up in one of my novels.
The Names
I try to make names properly reflective of a time and place. It’s never easy. Sometimes I just see one somewhere, or on someone, and I have an “Ah ha!” moment.
An Education
For as presumably one of "those" charged with having "conspired" to "hide" distasteful stuff about American history and politics from eager to learn young people fully committed to the ever-sponge-like soaking up of the past, and who could not be torn from the library bookstacks, this evidently needs stating plainly.
“25” Strangers?
Writing fiction thankfully still escapes ... efforts at "standardization" and "formalization" and must always.
A House (Always Somewhat) Divided
There is ... a small ... segment of American society of a "supremacist" bent that seems forever unwilling to admit or even able to comprehend that the rest of the world is not by definition inferior or the planet Mars.
First Visit To The Café
Looking to talk writing, it seems #writingcafe is a new hangout. I had a look there recently.
“Happily Ever After” (Not)
I don't think we demand "happy endings" as readers nearly as much as endings that make some sense.
That Ugly Past
That is in 1861 in Georgia. It was a time and a place that unapologetically practiced RACE-based SLAVERY of blacks. So why is anyone actually ever surprised today that the novel and the film are both full of racism?
Cristoforo Or Cristobal Or Christopher
I cannot suppress an uncomfortable feeling that we are seeing the police-reforming consensus and impetus largely evaporate due to becoming divided by and distracted by yet another public debate over monuments and - far worse - a spray-painting and statue-smashing orgy that even ends up defacing a Gandhi statue.
Why The Regular Blogging?
I feel that (for me at least) regular blogging is a useful social media activity because I find social media is actually not very good to us authors.
