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Edit, Rewrite, or… Scrap: #Writer’s dilemma #amwriting
I know this work is far from being completed, let alone publishable. Friends have, politely, ignored invites to comment, always a bad sign… Yet I am reluctant to scrap, while accepting that making this...
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The search for Cesárea, a #reading of “The Savage Detectives”, Roberto Bolaño
“Roberto Bolaño” by Farisori – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons. From the Golden Fleece to The Two Towers, from the Holy Grail to Heart of Darkness, great works of world’s literature...
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Pale criminals, a reading of Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
Bernhardt Günther is a tough guy, a survivor of the trenches of the Great War, a cop, a man who loves women, and his city, Faust’s metropolis, Berlin in the 30s. In March Violets – evoking the cynical...
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Of Thanatos, Ansky’s Notebook and a City in the Desert, a #reading of “2666”...
“Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.” 2066 “Now what sea is this you have crossed,...
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As a #writer, is #Facebook useful to me?
Today, a very good friend of mine, in real life as well as in cyberspace, quitted her Facebook account, which she created in 2009. She said to me she no longer had time to keep her page up to date,......
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The depth of sorrow, a reading of “Prague Fatale” by Philip Kerr
The year is 1942, and the gods of war appear to be still smiling to the conquering nazis. Bernie, back from the Ukrainian front, is in Berlin, already besieged by restrictions, lack of petrol, lack...
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The Guardian Angel
The old man looked out of the window into the familiar expense of the suburban garden, taking in the brightness of the tulips, the now fading bluebells and the impertinent grass, absurdly green. What a...
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Gleeful: #VisDare 137
It was done, all these long years of study, the cold classrooms, the interminable nights of reading, the despair when the results were dismal… We had finished, the world was ours, your hand in mine and...
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Survival #TheDailyPost #amwriting
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. April was a blessing, a trip to a far away and remote country we love, meeting fascinating people, and that reflective time that a writer always...
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He has been in so many places, but he is amazed when he discovers that she has too. Delighted, they start talking at once about their various experiences. As the days start getting longer, they walk,...
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