R. J. Brown
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Grey Haired Qwerty Queens

Started Nov 13, 2009 0 Replies

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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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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Who I am:
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
Media outlets that I currently write for:
www.seniorssunsettimes.com
My writing is:
Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir
Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
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Reading Writer's Peeves

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 2:11pm 0 Comments

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
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Reading Writer's Peeves

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 1:52pm 0 Comments

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
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Reading Writer's Peeves

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 1:37pm 0 Comments

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

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At 2:24am on January 12, 2010, Rita CharbonnierRita 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 LaiYi 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 GravesAlice 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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