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Charles Dickens by Richard French 4/16/2016 4:09:32 PM
The leader of one of the writers' groups I attend at the Toronto library asked me a question before our meeting started: "What guilty reading pleasures do you admit to?" If I'd been in the relaxed spirit of the question, I would have said somethin... more
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Hermann Hesse & "Magister Ludi" by Richard French 4/16/2016 4:07:02 PM
According to an article in Wikipedia, the writer Hermann Hesse came from a cultivated family who gave him a good background for his later writing career. He suffered turbulent spells while he was growing up. Even his mother, who recognized his gifts,... more
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www.lakshmirajsharma.in.blog/ by Lakshmi Raj Sharma 4/16/2016 6:58:50 AM
http://www.lakshmirajsharma.in/why-people-become-writers/... more
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"The Hills of the Tigers" by Richard French 4/15/2016 4:34:14 PM
During many years of writing, I have found the arts both a refuge and an inspiration. I threw away a pile of stories and plays a few decades ago, but the first writing I saved was the story of an enlisted man in the American army named Carl Norberg... more
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Welcome to Sagadac by Richard French 4/12/2016 4:15:43 PM
Reading and writing fiction has been a major interest of mine since I was in the 8th grade in a suburb of Boston. After serving in the American army in a noncombat role during the early years of the Vietnam War, I wondered if I could translate my ex... more
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A Breakthrough by Richard French 3/15/2016 8:18:47 PM
In the mid-1980's, when I was a second-career student at a Lutheran theological seminary in Indiana, an idea for a novel came to me. The main elements would be stories I wrote derived from my hitch as an enlisted man in the American army from 1964 - ... more
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Got An Offer by Michael D LeFevre 3/6/2016 11:47:30 AM
Last week, I had an email from Raider Publishing Group stating they are interested in publishing my next novel. While I am considering it, it does give me incentive to finish it off. Something I am still a long way from doing. Watch this space. ... more
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A Story Within A Story by Howard Alan Lantzer 8/17/2015 5:15:06 PM
Story... more
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Hard Work! by Howard Alan Lantzer 8/15/2015 2:15:02 PM
Work... more
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Beaver Tales by Howard Alan Lantzer 8/13/2015 7:15:00 PM
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Home and Abroad.Now And Then. by Steve Kerr 7/13/2015 7:49:12 AM
The minutes on the clock slowly tick by on this wet overcast
July early evening. All my family are on holiday on the
Algarve.My nephew is playing football in Budapest and even
Daisy the dog is shacked up in som... more
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End Of Term and Days In Paris by Steve Kerr 6/24/2015 4:15:38 AM
It is Summer and just before the start of the Scottish
school holidays ,which commence shortly, I find myself in
Huddersfield with no holiday plans.My family are off to
Portugal while my neighbours are of to Paris for a... more
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Old York In June by Steve Kerr 6/21/2015 9:26:46 AM
The creamy stone ramparts on the old city walls of York
wound round the old town from the station to the river with
weeds and grassy tufts rising up from their cracks.The bells
of the minster peel themselves into some c... more
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The Mad Blossoms of May by Steve Kerr 5/5/2015 5:08:00 AM
The pink blossom dances itself into a frenzy as the wind
howls and
the rain lashes the black pavements giving
them a patina look. The sun that complimented the streets on
the May Day... more
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A View into A Celluiloid Past by Steve Kerr 4/30/2015 1:36:02 AM
As I sit in the cyber café writing this blog I see the
flakey dirty cream wall of a one time cinema.It was built
at the height of Hollywoods golden age and those who
entered it were transported into a magical wonde... more
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Trees In The Wind by Steve Kerr 4/29/2015 4:21:49 AM
Rain can be the weather of poetry and literature and if not
then windy weather most definately is .Would wuthering heights
have ever been the same without the blustery wild winds of
the moors? I awoke this morning just bef... more
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Monday Morning in the Cyber Cafe by Steve Kerr 4/27/2015 12:51:12 AM
I sit in a cyber cafe.My computer is not working at home.A
great handicap these days.The computer vendor states the
problem is with the broadband BT are adamant its not and
its a computer problem.Stale mate exists betwee... more
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Aprite La Finestra by Steve Kerr 4/22/2015 4:45:09 AM
The most welcome Spring sunshine continues into late April.
In the garden at Elmwood ,my home, there is an abundance of
colour from seasonal flowers and tree blossom.It is an
example of how lovely this planet at time... more
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April Weekend In Bayswater by Steve Kerr 4/13/2015 10:32:37 AM
The sun began to set over Bayswater on a Friday evening.It
is a part of London that is always very close to my heart.An
area that was once my patch in shades of bygone youth.The
traffic as manic as ever soared over... more
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Once Upon Our Times by M. A. Kairos 3/25/2015 10:42:31 AM
Our introductory message... more
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