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Win Live from the Road
Live from the Road is featured on Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews today. The blog contains an excerpt from the book, an interview with me and a chance to win either a print or kindle version of the book. Drop by and visit and enter to win! The contest ends September 22, 2012. I’m shamelessly…
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All memory is fiction
By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she…
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To Which or To That. . .
By Patricia Zick @PCZick that is the question, which I pose today. It’s always good to review the rules of grammar. Here’s an excellent article from Writer’s Digest on the vagaries of the not so interchangeable which and that. I probably need to read it a couple of times, even though I thought I knew…
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Point of View
“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. . .Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.” William Zinsser Point of view is crucial in a novel. One of the quickest ways to turn me from a book is immature point of view. I often experiment with…
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Set your writing critics free
Releasing the Writing Critic “Art is a jealous mistress.” Ralph Waldo Emerson By P. C. Zick @PCZick Somewhere along the way during our writing life, most of us have encountered others who expressed certain opinions about our writing. Unfortunately these expressions make their way into our psyche causing us to become our own worst critics.…
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Tortoise Stew on Kindle
By Patricia Zick @PCZick As promised, I’ve now released Tortoise Stew on Kindle (by P.C. Zick). It’s a real deal at .99 cents. It was originally published in paperback in 2006 under my former name (Patricia Camburn Behnke). The new e-book version has been updated and edited. Here’s a review of the book from 2006.…
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Words of Wisdom?
“I carried scars, but those scars bring us to places where happiness is perhaps just having the morning paper in the driveway and the coffee steaming hot in the kitchen – the simple pleasures enjoyed in moments of grace.” from Live from the Road By P.C. Zick
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Book Clubs Find More Than Adventure Along The Mother Road
Book Clubs Find More Than Adventure Along The Mother Road.
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Wise words indeed
By Patricia Zick @PCZick“Always head in the direction you’re going.” Meg Newton, main character in Live from the Road.
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