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Mary W. Walters: On Books: An Inconvenient Death
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Mary W. Walters: On Books. Books that I have found myself compelled to review. Sunday, September 21, 2008. Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. The Harvill Press, 1998. Softcover, 311 pages. Now I pass the recommendation on to you. While Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me. Fortunately, attentive reading of Marías’ writing brings innumerable rewards. One of the reasons this novel is so compelling is its set-up. Here is the opening sentence:. With this thought, the narrato...
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Mary W. Walters: Notions: July 2009
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Mary W. Walters: Notions. Brief unrelated thoughts that just don't seem to fit anywhere else. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Spin Dry - and the Wasp Sucker revisited. Someone should invent a big salad-spinner-type contraption for the change rooms of public swimming pools into which you could drop your bathing suit and then crank the handle to spin the water out of the suit before you put it in your pack and take it home. Mary W. Walters. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mary W. Walters. View my complete profile.
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips: Use competitons as deadlines
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips. Friday, January 2, 2009. Use competitons as deadlines. Find short-story, flash fiction or even novel competitions and commit to entering them. They provide invaluable deadlines and offer the additional advantage of keeping the manuscript you have submitted off your desk for weeks or even months. And if you do win. well, that is always a nice thing, too. Mary W. Walters. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Blogs and Website. Mary W. Walters Web Page. Characters, names of.
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips: The First Draft Is For You
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips. Monday, April 19, 2010. The First Draft Is For You. Much as we want to believe that this time, we will only need to write one draft of a short story or a novel before it is publishable, down deep we know that if we’re serious writers we will never get off that easily. (There are benefits for the writer as well as the reader in revision, however, and I have discussed some of these on my Militant Writer blog. To get them down. 8221; you need to ask yourself. “Are my...8221; &...
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Mary W. Walters: Film Reviews: December 2008
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Mary W. Walters: Film Reviews. Monday, December 29, 2008. 8220;Who knew he could act? That seems to have been the question the reviewers of JCVD. Have been asking themselves—as have, no doubt, the film's enthusiastic viewers. The "he" to whom they are referring is none other than Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD)—the star of the movie and also its subject. Gives him and/or his character the opportunity he has been missing, and the results on both real and fictional levels are impressive. In the showing I ...
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips: Getting started
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Mary W. Walters: Fiction Tips. Saturday, February 14, 2009. I have days when I find it impossible to get started on my work. The very act of opening the file on the computer in which my story or novel is contained is more than I can manage. I have recently discovered that when such a situation arises, there is. Something I can do to make the day change direction in my favour. Actually, I have two options, at least. (You may have others - please feel free to add them in the Comments section.). Mary W....
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Mary W. Walters: Film Reviews: JCVD
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Mary W. Walters: Film Reviews. Monday, December 29, 2008. 8220;Who knew he could act? That seems to have been the question the reviewers of JCVD. Have been asking themselves—as have, no doubt, the film's enthusiastic viewers. The "he" to whom they are referring is none other than Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD)—the star of the movie and also its subject. Gives him and/or his character the opportunity he has been missing, and the results on both real and fictional levels are impressive. In the showing I ...
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Mary W. Walters: Notions: January 2011
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Mary W. Walters: Notions. Brief unrelated thoughts that just don't seem to fit anywhere else. Thursday, January 20, 2011. A smartphone app I wish someone would invent. So get on it, and let me know when it's done. I'll even pay. A bit. Mary W. Walters. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mary W. Walters. I have published four novels, a collection of short stories, and a non-fiction book. See website for more information. View my complete profile. My Blogs and Website. Mary W. Walters Website.