Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review ala P.C.
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I’ve been posting Book Review Friday for several months, although in recent weeks, I haven’t been that regular with my postings. I hope that changes as the cooler weather approaches, and I spend more time inside in quieter pursuits such as reading. I think about reviews, both those I write and…
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Author Wednesday – Christina Carson
Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Christina Carson who is the author of literary fiction and writes a guest post on her decision to write in this genre. She writes about her philosophy of life, which offers us thoughtful considerations on how to live and re-vision our lives. Her first two novels are Suffer…
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Write the Perfect Lead and It All Falls in Place
By Patricia Zick @PCZick “The young man huddled under a layer of blankets with a cap covering his bald head, as he talked about an upcoming trip to Las Vegas before he died.” I learned a valuable lesson about writing a story, whether fiction or nonfiction, after writing my first feature article. The lead (or…
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Giveaway at Goodreads
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I wrote a nonfiction book in 2009 for and about a man and woman in Chiefland, Florida, who suffered first through an act of terrorism in Angola and then faced full-blow Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms for nearly two decades as they faced the trials of the man’s kidnappers. Two Moons…
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The Wise Writer Does Not Make the Oprah Angry
By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began my writing career, somewhere in the back on my mind I still held the romantic vision of myself typing on a manual typewriter lost all day in the world I would create on the page. If only. When my first novel came out in 2000, my publisher wrote…
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