Over the years I’ve come to realize the world is a fast changing place, and once things change there is no going back. The real world doesn’t work in reverse. One thing that has not changed over the years is the appreciation I have for the people around me: my family, friends, readers and fellow …
Category: Writers
Dec 21
Do You Agree?
Customs and traditions are funny. What’s expected in one culture may not even be appropriate in another. I was wondering the other day, what are the consequences for someone who does what’s expected and feels cheated or breaks with tradition and goes their own way? In the 1950s United States, if you were a girl, …
Dec 18
Reflections on Resolutions and Writing
‘Tis the season. What does your season look like? It’s December, and I’m running around with holiday madness. I don’t have the time to remember my gift list let alone what I did or didn’t accomplish this year. In fact, if hadn’t written them down, I’d have forgotten I even had thoughts to change my …
Dec 16
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee!
In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge was obsessed over the accumulation of wealth. He was greedy, hoarding his pennies. He was mean, complaining about the poor. He was nasty, wishing ill on others. No one wanted to be around him. His main problem, however, was that he had lost his joy. Wretched behavior grew …
Dec 11
Paula Picked a Plighted Path of Parallel Plots
Several chapters into Paula Hawkins’ best seller The Girl on the Train, I note the thriller’s structure of three character point of view with parallel plots. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by David Shafer, which I also read in the fall, follows the same three character parallel plot. Although the point of view and plot structure are …