Diane Sherlock
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Writing is fun again! Yesterday something shifted when I was working on the novel, filling in thin places – things clicked back into place. Helped even more when I took a long walk through Fryman. Solved a few problems – I tend to write through a draft and leave sections to fill in later, hence…
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The typewriter that I learned to type on (no, I am not that old. I just love this typewriter and electrics and computers don’t come close). Here it is: Isn’t it beautiful? Yes, yes it is. You can find them on eBay for about $25 and pay a LOT more for perfectly restored ones at…
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Yes, I’m late to the party, but will still note that the Booker Prize was announced yesterday. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel will be released October 13. You can preorder here. At 560 pages, it’s good for chilly nights ahead. I still need to catch up on the last 2 or 3 Bookers. I do…
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Attention, Patrons of the Arts! I could write a very good novel if you put me up here for a few months! hee I stayed here years ago and still remember the carpet of flowers in the woods and oh, the food! The concierge at a hotel in Paris recommended it as his favorite vacation…
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My mom passed away September 28th. I went down the week before and she went peacefully, holding my hand. Will be getting back to posting soon. Thank you for all the good wishes and prayers.
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For awhile now, there’s been a murmuring in the background about onsite printing presses. Imagine walking into your local bookstore , ordering your book and it’s printed up for you on the spot. Harvard’s trying it. As is the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont. Now, rare books will become more readily available thanks to the Espresso Book Machine.
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No need to annotate Dan Brown. While many – and I am not among them – like his storytelling, it must be widely recognized that from a craft standpoint it’s bad writing. Linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum writes, “Brown’s writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad.” (if you’re not offended…
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