"Hi you!
I'm not in Chicago anymore, regretfully, but we can still be friends! God, I loved it there. A member of my critique group also lived in Chicago during the Civil-Rights era...what stories you must be able to tell!
xo"
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Grey Haired Qwerty Queens
Started Nov 13, 2009 0 Replies 0 Likes
Any old time secretaries, Civil Rights marchers, bra burners, Counter Culture denizens, journal keepers out there ready to share memories & adventures of office jobs & travels?I came up in…Continue
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- www.rjbrownbooks.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Standing The Watch: The Greatest Gift
The Dead Husband: A Sally Sees Cozy Mystery
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- www.seniorssunsettimes.com
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- Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
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Reading Writer's Peeves
Posted on January 3, 2010 at 2:11pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Memoir As Fiction
Everyone's heard about memoirs which included stories or facts that didn't actually happen in the authors' lives, or were exaggerated. Oprah Winfrey had the wool pulled over her eyes twice, & when I ran my book review site, RebeccasReads.com/archives, I got hoodwinked too.
The trouble was this author wasn't who or what he said he was. His prestigious literary agent got him a three book contract with a Top Gun publishing house. He even won an… Continue
Everyone's heard about memoirs which included stories or facts that didn't actually happen in the authors' lives, or were exaggerated. Oprah Winfrey had the wool pulled over her eyes twice, & when I ran my book review site, RebeccasReads.com/archives, I got hoodwinked too.
The trouble was this author wasn't who or what he said he was. His prestigious literary agent got him a three book contract with a Top Gun publishing house. He even won an… Continue
Reading Writer's Peeves
Posted on January 3, 2010 at 1:52pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Conjunctionitis
When I was an editor polishing others' words, I noticed an epidemic of this but bug. Some efforts were but awful. So I would offer an exercise learnt during my Human Potential Movement trainings, back in the '70s.
Lesson
Consider the number of times a day you think, hear, speak & write the word but. Now why, you mutter, does this matter? Remember those backhanded compliments: "Thanks but it must have cost..." "That's nice but..." "You… Continue
When I was an editor polishing others' words, I noticed an epidemic of this but bug. Some efforts were but awful. So I would offer an exercise learnt during my Human Potential Movement trainings, back in the '70s.
Lesson
Consider the number of times a day you think, hear, speak & write the word but. Now why, you mutter, does this matter? Remember those backhanded compliments: "Thanks but it must have cost..." "That's nice but..." "You… Continue
Reading Writer's Peeves
Posted on January 3, 2010 at 1:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Who vs whom
I'm a peaceable qwerty queen with a preference for giggling rather than quarreling. A relaxed kinda writer with a 1950s English girls' school education, although I'm now a long-ago presidentially welcomed, hand-on-my-heart pledger-of-allegiance, standing up anthem-singing, voting American citizen with an ear for slang. That is until I'm reading a Middle Ages tale about a group of English pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem & one of 'em ups & says "About whom are… Continue
I'm a peaceable qwerty queen with a preference for giggling rather than quarreling. A relaxed kinda writer with a 1950s English girls' school education, although I'm now a long-ago presidentially welcomed, hand-on-my-heart pledger-of-allegiance, standing up anthem-singing, voting American citizen with an ear for slang. That is until I'm reading a Middle Ages tale about a group of English pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem & one of 'em ups & says "About whom are… Continue
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 2:24am on January 12, 2010,
Rita Charbonnier said… - Thanks so much for your friendship! And please let me know your thoughts about the book... greetings from Rome!
Rita
- At 8:11am on January 11, 2010,
Yi Shun Lai said…
- Hi you!
I'm not in Chicago anymore, regretfully, but we can still be friends! God, I loved it there. A member of my critique group also lived in Chicago during the Civil-Rights era...what stories you must be able to tell!
xo
- At 7:47am on January 11, 2010,
Alice Graves said… - Hi Rebecca, If you Google my name or go to sptimes.com (St. Petersburg Times) you can read some of my columns. I'd love to figure out how to put them together into a book or write a book about those 50+years. Let's definitely "talk."
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