For middle readers…and adults who never grew up: The Owl Motel by Chuck Mallory
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Love, a Dream, and a Theft
My Secret Relationship with Ursula K. Le Guin’s Mother by Chuck Mallory To understand, you need to know I grew up in a very small town in the 1960s. My mother was able to put me in first grade at … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, Librarians, Library, Ursula K. Le Guin, writing
Tagged books, fiction, Librarians, Library, Prodigy, Theodora Kroeber, Ursula K LeGuin, writing
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When Your Own Writing Spooks You
Clean the basement. That’s how you find pieces of writing you never remember writing. I found one, and am going to throw it away. It isn’t bad as much as it is strange. In 2008 I took a stream-of-consciousness writing … Continue reading
Angst. Just your general angst.
I know writing is not supposed to be fun. I know it is not necessarily supposed to be hard. I know it can work well as you get into the “flow” and time and space disappear beneath the rapid-fire sequence … Continue reading
Posted in Words, Writing Angst
Tagged Chuck Mallory, fiction, imagination, struggle, writing
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The Strangest Quotes You Have Ever Heard, No Kidding
Here’s what happens when you open an old box you forgot you had and look inside… Continue reading
The Secret about Historical Fiction and Sci-Fi
Chicago is known for its long horrible winters, and being a writer and avid reader, I always have plenty to do indoors. However, sometimes the writing is arduous and you need a break. Then you get to that weird in-between-good-books … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Sci-fi
Tagged historical fiction, novel, old TV shows, sci-fi, Westerns, writing
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Write to the Market?
I started with good intentions. When I was in elementary and middle school, I wrote about the small things close to me and my life. I lived in a closed world and could not see outside that narrow horizon. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Angst
Tagged books, Judy Blume, literature, M.E. Kerr, Maia Wojciechowska, middle reader, S.E. Hinton, SCBWI, Sweet Valley Kids, The Outsiders, Writer's Digest, writing, YA
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Not long ago I decided to admit that I will never be able to read all the good sci-fi that’s out there. Sci-fi is a relatively new genre, having only become a body of work on the literary scene in … Continue reading
Posted in Sci-fi
Tagged aliens, arthur c. clarke, Chuck Mallory, classics, cyberpunk, Jules Verne, Owl Motel, Ray Bradbury, robert heinlein, sci-fi, science fiction, writers, writing
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