Tag: Fiction
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Writer’s Shop Talk: Jim Garraty’s Graduation Day: From Page to Screen
This scene is drawn from the last chapter set during Jim’s high school years at South Miami High in the novel Reunion: Coda. The narrative unfolds on graduation day at Miami-Dade Community College (South Campus), where Jim stands among a sea of new graduates, symbolizing both an end and a beginning. While I do not…
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Writer’s Shop Talk: Jim Meets Maddie (A Scene from ‘Reunion: Coda’ in Screenplay Format)
I’m excited to share an excerpt from my upcoming novel, Reunion: Coda. In this scene, our protagonist, Professor Jim Garraty, is at a pivotal moment in his life. He is about to meet the woman he will fall in love with during a serendipitous encounter set against the backdrop of the Moonglow nightclub, with its…
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Exploring Storytelling in Different Formats
I love telling stories in different styles and formats. My writing journey includes blog posts, reviews, poems, and long fiction. Each has its own charm and challenges. I’ve written a novella called Reunion: A Story and I’m currently working on its follow-up, Reunion: Coda. These dive into the complexity of human connections and the past’s…
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Writer’s Shop Talk: Exciting Developments in ‘Reunion: Coda’ – Chapter 21
Midday/Early Afternoon, Thursday, December 5, 2024, Miami, Florida Hello, Constant Readers! I’m thrilled to announce that yesterday afternoon’s writing session was unexpectedly successful. After two hours of brainstorming – and, admittedly, worrying that I wasn’t making any progress – filled with drafting, editing, and revising, I completed the 21st chapter of Reunion: Coda. This chapter’s…
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Writer’s Shop Talk: My Productive Writer’s Monday
Seamlessly Weaving Fiction: A Day of Creative Triumphs Late Morning, Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Miami, Florida Yesterday was a fantastic day for writing. Not only did I manage to craft my daily blog post – an after-action report of a session of Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age, written in the style of…
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Writer’s Shop Talk: Maddie Fends Off a Matchmaker! (Writing Exercise)
Writing As a Craft: Keeping Secrets? Author’s Note: This passage is based on one of the many writing exercises from the book How to Write a Romance: Or, How to Write Witty Dialogue, Smoldering Love Scenes, and Happily Ever Afters. In this exercise, I wrote in the third person to practice creating engaging dialogue and…
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The Journey of a Storyteller: Embracing Challenges in Writing
Midday/Early Afternoon, Friday, November 22, 2024, Miami, Florida “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.” ― Mark Twain I am, first and foremost, a storyteller. Crafting and sharing a good tale – whether presented as a blog post, a short story, a novella, a poem, a screenplay, or (since I’ve been working on one…
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Discovering My Writer’s Journey: Triumphs and Challenges
Late Morning, Thursday, November 21, 2024, Miami, Florida On Writing and Storytelling: The Path to ‘Reunion: Coda’ I’m a writer and storyteller. I started writing when I was nine years old, but I really got going after I started ninth grade at Riviera Junior High School in Miami. At Riviera, I wrote two guest articles…
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Navigating the Writing Journey: My Novel ‘Reunion: Coda’
Midday, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, Miami, Florida “The hardest thing about writing is writing.” ― Nora Ephron Writing Journey Well, I’ve been diligently working on Reunion: Coda – my first novel and a continuation of Reunion: A Story, a novella I wrote in 1998 and published 20 years later – for precisely 20 months and…
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Writing Breakthrough: Crafting Chapter 21 of Reunion: Coda
Late Morning, Tuesday, November 19, 2024, Miami, Florida Hi, Constant Readers, and welcome to the Tuesday edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s another warm and muggy late fall day in South Florida. The temperature is 81°F (27°C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at and the wind blowing from the at (),…
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