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Looking Through Lace

Looking Through Lace – Ruth Nestvold Toni Donato is a xenolinguist, normally working behind the scenes, cataloging inflection, grammar, and structure of alien languages in massive databases, but she’s finally gotten her big break to do field research.  On the planet, Christmas, the women appear to have a distinct, secret language from the men, and […]

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Marching alongside the Potomac River, from Washington DC to Cumberland, Maryland is one of my favorite places.  The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) is 184.5 miles long, and operated at its full length from 1850 – 1924, primarily moving coal.  Back in the days of the American Revolution, our founding fathers pondered how to best […]

Twinkies and Twilight

My critique group and I a few weeks back were discussing technology and references that date novels, such as public pay phones versus common cell phone usage, or gas station attendants who pump customers’ gas.  Should a writer leave the novel alone, as a snapshot in time, or should they issue a revised edition that […]

Character Motivation

The short story had decent prose, interesting plot, and a neat twist to the ending, but I just didn’t buy it.  I mean, I paid money for the story, but I found the plot premise and, more importantly, the main characters’ motivations lacking.  I hovered on the edge of suspended disbelief, but just couldn’t make […]

Profanity With A Story

When I wrote my young adult short story, Love Magick, I carefully screened it for language, determined to keep it clean, but with other stories, I’ll the bad words fall where it may.  Profanity has become a part of our culture, and it often delivers great meaning.  A curse word can show a well-mannered character […]

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