Tag: fiction
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Following the Muse
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Sometimes the muse leads us where we need to go. In early 2002, I was working on a novel set on the Suwanee River. I was also a reporter for a 5,000 circulation weekly newspaper in north Florida. I covered one of the more contentious city commissions as WalMart began…
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Incubating a Novel
“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” Larry L. King By Patricia Zick @PCZick My new novel is incubating. I finished the complete first draft in February. I gave it over to two beta readers who sent back their comments and suggestions in May. In the meantime, I read.…
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“Once a Upon a Time” is thankfully in the past
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Note: I wrote this column about publishing my first novel in 2000. Times have changed and after re-reading this piece and remembering, I’m happy they have. Viva la revolution! All I ever wanted to do was write, but I kept that knowledge to myself as I went to college and then…
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Patti Smith Just Rocks
By Patricia Zick @PCZick Just Kids chronicles the rising star of poet Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, two free spirits let loose in New York City in the late ‘60s. Patti is the kind of artist I always longed to be: cool and free. My fear of rejection kept me from stepping off my…
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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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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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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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