by Mary | Feb 21, 2012 | DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Everybody’s routine goes to hell during the holidays, which is why January is such a relief for people like me. I like a nice comfortable rut. Few things make me happier than looking at the calendar and seeing an entire week of sweet nothing stretching out...
by Mary | Feb 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
One week on, and life is starting to get back to normal. Annie the Dachshund is doing her best to take our minds off the loss of Leo the Retriever by having an episode of back trouble, so we can pay attention even more attention to her than usual. Four hundred years...
by Mary | Feb 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ten and a half is a good long life for a big dog like a golden retriever. The vet agrees that we’re doing the right thing. Hard as it will be, we have no doubts either. So I just made Leo’s last appointment. Leo’s back left knee has been lame...
by Mary | Feb 5, 2012 | DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Not sure we really need the comma in that quote, but that’s how Pearson’s Law is written in business and engineering circles. The saying was popularized by Peter Drucker, a business consultant who was particularly influential in Japan, where implementing...
by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech
Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
by Mary | Jan 16, 2012 | A THREAD OF GRACE, Current events, DOC, THE SPARROW
I got email this morning from a reader who had just finished Doc and who was kind enough to take the time to tell me how he reacted to the book. “I have been a police officer in Wichita, KS for 24 years,” he wrote, “and know a little of the politics...
