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Lockdown blues? Read a scary ghost story

Peter May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 Book Review / Peter H. Green. Writer / Uncategorized itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

Lockdown blues getting you down? Does the TV news sound the same every day? Remember those years when you discovered how to escape with a good book? It could take you to exotic places, earlier times or new adventures. In The Turn of the Key, (Scout Press/ Simon & Schuster, …

Pub 1.3 Don’t like the weather? Change it.

writerpeter October 3, 2018 October 3, 2018 Peter H. Green. Writer / The Writing Craft / Uncategorized itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

Mark Twain said, “Everybody talks about the weather. Nobody does anything about it.” But the writer has total control. An author can set the location, climate zone, season and particular type of weather to begin a story—in a snowstorm (Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson); in the pouring rain (My …