Monday, October 28, 2024

The Importance of Context Clues

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  Last week I talked about using context clues to understand the foreign language phrases used in one of my current projects. Knowing how to...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Translation or Context? Using Foreign Languages in Novels

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  One of my current projects is Not the Enemy , a story about a German American girl living in Illinois during World War I. For various reas...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Visiting America's National Parks

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  I just put together a collaborative presentation on national parks for my camera club, and it reminded me how important it is to visit o...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Customs Change Over Time

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  I just re-read the first three books in the Cherry Ames series by Helen Wells. For those of you who don’t know, Cherry Ames was part of th...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Purpose v. Goal: Story Always Comes First

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  Despite what the dictionary says, purpose and goal are not always the same. This is especially true when writing fiction. Educating my aud...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Traditional and Beautiful

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  John and Christina’s wedding couldn’t have been nicer. Everything was traditional: the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, the church ceremony...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Drinking Starbucks Coffee

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  My son got married this past weekend. I’ve been to busy to blog about it yet, so I decided to be lazy and reprint a blog post from October...