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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Photo Friday: A Video Instead
With the weekend looming, and another difficult week past, I thought I would do something a little different this week. And so I am making available a video I made of me playing my guitar and singing one of my … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Music
Tagged Angel From Montgomery, blogging, David B. Coe, friendship, guitar, John Prine, music
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Plotting Or Not — Doing Away With a Dumb Debate
This is my forty-second Writing-Tip Wednesday post of the year, and somehow I have gotten through forty-one posts without addressing that age-old writing question, “Do I or do I not outline?” Or put another way, “Plotter or pantser?” First, a … Continue reading
Posted in Islevale Cycle, Novels, Thieftaker, Writing, Writing Life
Tagged blogging, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, how to write, Islevale Cycle, narrative, organic writing, outlining, pantsing, plotting, Thieftaker Chronicles, Time's Assassin, Time's Children, Time's Demon, writing, writing advice, writing life, writing tips
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Monday Musings: Feeding Birds, How to Get Started
Earlier this year, in the midst of spring bird migration, I wrote about my lifelong love of birding. I shared with you what birding has meant to me over the course of my life, and at the end I made … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fun, nature
Tagged bird feeders, birds, blogging, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, family, feeding birds, fun, gardening, how to feed birds, nature, photography
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Photo Friday: Reflections of Fall
Yesterday, I hiked out to a pair of lakes near our house — ones I have photographed several times before this year. I was hoping to find calm waters, interesting clouds, and a bit of fall color. I wasn’t disappointed. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, nature, photography
Tagged autumn, blogging, childhood, David B. Coe, family, foliage, nature, photography, reflections
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Real-World Influences On Our Fiction
It’s also possible, particularly with our world as fraught as it is right now, that the sheer gravity of real-world events and conflicts will pull your story in directions you don’t want it to go. These influences are powerful, but … Continue reading
Posted in Family, History, kids, Novels, parenting, Politics, Writing, Writing Life
Tagged 9/11, blogging, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, family, history, how to write, LonTobyn Chronicle, parenting, politics, Winds of the Forelands, writing advice, writing tips
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Monday Musings: How I’m Coping
I’ve written about politics and social issues a lot in recent weeks, and I want desperately to avoid doing so again this week. It’s not that I don’t have more to say. I do. But I feel as though I’d … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Family, food, Music, nature, Novels, photography, Politics, Writing, Writing Life
Tagged Aaron Sorkin, blogging, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, emotional health, family, guitar, Guy Gavriel Kay, marriage, music, nature, photography, politics, social media, writing, writing life
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Photo Friday: Photos and Friendship
Earlier this week, after working for much of the day, I went for a short hike with a dear friend of mine, a fellow photographer. It was late afternoon on a cool, crisp, exquisite day, and we went down off … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, nature, photography
Tagged blogging, David B. Coe, friendship, nature, photography, streams, waterfalls
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Descriptions and Point of View
Description does not — cannot — take place in an emotional or circumstantial vacuum. Not that long ago, I offered tips on writing scenes involving sex and violence, and essentially said that dealing with such encounters is almost entirely a … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Setting, Writing, Writing Life
Tagged blogging, character, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, description, emotion, how to write, point of view, setting, writing, writing advice, writing life, writing tips
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Monday Musings: Covid, Grief, and Lies
And yet, his first act upon returning to the White House was to make a Mussolini-esque appearance on his veranda and ostentatiously remove his face mask. Last week’s Photo Friday post was about my brother’s memorial service, which took place … Continue reading
Posted in Family, parenting, Politics
Tagged blogging, Cheeto Fuck-nuts, Covid-19, D.B. Jackson, David B. Coe, family, grief, loss, parenting, politics, public health
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Photo Friday: Three Years Ago This Weekend
Three years ago this weekend, we were in Massachusetts at Wachusett Meadow, a Massachusetts Audubon Society wildlife sanctuary, for a memorial service honoring my brother, Bill. This glorious site was one of his favorites in the world, and we dedicated … Continue reading
Posted in Family, nature, photography
Tagged birds, blogging, David B. Coe, death, family, hawks, nature, photography, reflections
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