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K.P. Gresham
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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
Jan 9, 20234 min read
Assessments 2022 / Goals 2023
By N. M. Cedeño We’ll start with assessments: I started 2022 with the goal of getting short stories published. In aid of that goal, I set...
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K.P. Gresham
Oct 26, 20224 min read
Terry Shames’ Samuel Craddock Mysteries: A “Genre-Bending” Series and One True Sen
Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...
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K.P. Gresham
Oct 3, 20223 min read
Writing “It Came Upon a Midnight Ice Storm”
By N.M. Cedeño People like to ask writers, do you ever use details from your life in your writing? Answer: Sometimes. It depends on what...
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K.P. Gresham
Aug 22, 20223 min read
When Submitting Short Stories to Markets, Patience is Required
By N.M. Cedeño How long does it take to hear back from editors with acceptances or rejections of short stories? That depends on a number...
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K.P. Gresham
Jul 11, 20224 min read
Facing a Writing Challenge
by N. M. Cedeño Many writers find motivation in challenging themselves in various ways. Some attempt to write a novel length manuscript...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 20, 20223 min read
Review: Nancy Peacock’s A Broom of One’s Own (A Public Service Repost)
by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...
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K.P. Gresham
May 30, 20223 min read
Getting Texas Wrong in Fiction- Details Matter Y’all
Anyone who lives in Texas knows that Hollywood’s version of Texas and the actual Texas are very different places. Mostly, we Texans roll...
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K.P. Gresham
Apr 2, 20223 min read
Why I Go to Critique Group
by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...
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K.P. Gresham
Jan 24, 20223 min read
Writing “Nice Girls Don’t” for Groovy Gumshoes
So what if I wasn’t born in the 1960s? I can do research! In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be...
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K.P. Gresham
Dec 27, 20212 min read
Sisters in Crime, Thank You!!!
By K.P. Gresham First off, the best job I ever had (short of writing mysteries) was teaching. And yes, I taught Middle Schoolers, which...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 22, 20213 min read
End of Year Assessments and Thanksgiving
by N. M. Cedeño For writers, setting and meeting goals can be done in a variety of ways. Some people count words produced in a given...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 7, 20214 min read
A Little Hitchcock, Two Stories, Plus Spoilers
by Kathy Waller The summer I was six, my cousin of the same age was visiting our spinster great-aunt and bachelor uncle who lived up the...
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K.P. Gresham
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Don’t Delete “Unsuccessful” Manuscripts
By N.M. Cedeño A number of the stories sitting in files on my computer were written years ago, some over ten years ago, and have never...
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K.P. Gresham
Aug 23, 20214 min read
Dreaming in Santa Fe
by Helen Currie Foster Driving into New Mexico with my husband (favorite long-time travel companion) I peer anxiously out the car...
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K.P. Gresham
Jul 26, 20213 min read
Working with Editors
by N. M. Cedeño Nothing makes a writer feel more like a know-nothing novice than a marked-up manuscript from an editor. Whenever I get a...
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K.P. Gresham
Jul 13, 20214 min read
And Over. And Over. And . . .
by Kathy Waller I’m thinking it over. Jack Benny A curse on this week’s post. I banged out nearly 2,000 words that should have been...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 28, 20215 min read
Weaving Complexity into Story
by Renee Kimball It has been a year of extremes—Covid, freezing weather, and higher than average temperatures forecast for the summer...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 21, 20215 min read
THE PLOT THICKENS! Or, Your Suspicions May Be True
by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 14, 20213 min read
Creating Multiple Identities: the Research Rabbit Hole
by N.M. Cedeño Setting a story in the past requires the author to do research to make sure the details of the story are correct. For me,...
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K.P. Gresham
Jun 7, 20213 min read
Tipper: My Manager Extraordinaire
by K .P. Gresham I suspect most of us have our secrets about how we survived the Pandemic of ’20-’21. Video games, binge-watching movies,...
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