K.P. Gresham
Assessments 2022 / Goals 2023
By N. M. Cedeño We’ll start with assessments: I started 2022 with the goal of getting short stories published. In aid of that goal, I set...
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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
- Oct 26, 2022
- 4 min
Terry Shames’ Samuel Craddock Mysteries: A “Genre-Bending” Series and One True Sen
Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...
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K.P. Gresham
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Writing “It Came Upon a Midnight Ice Storm”
By N.M. Cedeño People like to ask writers, do you ever use details from your life in your writing? Answer: Sometimes. It depends on what...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 22, 2022
- 3 min
When Submitting Short Stories to Markets, Patience is Required
By N.M. Cedeño How long does it take to hear back from editors with acceptances or rejections of short stories? That depends on a number...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jul 11, 2022
- 4 min
Facing a Writing Challenge
by N. M. Cedeño Many writers find motivation in challenging themselves in various ways. Some attempt to write a novel length manuscript...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Nancy Peacock’s A Broom of One’s Own (A Public Service Repost)
by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Getting Texas Wrong in Fiction- Details Matter Y’all
Anyone who lives in Texas knows that Hollywood’s version of Texas and the actual Texas are very different places. Mostly, we Texans roll...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 2, 2022
- 3 min
Why I Go to Critique Group
by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Writing “Nice Girls Don’t” for Groovy Gumshoes
So what if I wasn’t born in the 1960s? I can do research! In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be...
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K.P. Gresham
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Sisters in Crime, Thank You!!!
By K.P. Gresham First off, the best job I ever had (short of writing mysteries) was teaching. And yes, I taught Middle Schoolers, which...
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K.P. Gresham
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
End of Year Assessments and Thanksgiving
by N. M. Cedeño For writers, setting and meeting goals can be done in a variety of ways. Some people count words produced in a given...
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K.P. Gresham
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
A Little Hitchcock, Two Stories, Plus Spoilers
by Kathy Waller The summer I was six, my cousin of the same age was visiting our spinster great-aunt and bachelor uncle who lived up the...
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K.P. Gresham
- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
Don’t Delete “Unsuccessful” Manuscripts
By N.M. Cedeño A number of the stories sitting in files on my computer were written years ago, some over ten years ago, and have never...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
Dreaming in Santa Fe
by Helen Currie Foster Driving into New Mexico with my husband (favorite long-time travel companion) I peer anxiously out the car...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
Working with Editors
by N. M. Cedeño Nothing makes a writer feel more like a know-nothing novice than a marked-up manuscript from an editor. Whenever I get a...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
And Over. And Over. And . . .
by Kathy Waller I’m thinking it over. Jack Benny A curse on this week’s post. I banged out nearly 2,000 words that should have been...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 28, 2021
- 5 min
Weaving Complexity into Story
by Renee Kimball It has been a year of extremes—Covid, freezing weather, and higher than average temperatures forecast for the summer...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 21, 2021
- 5 min
THE PLOT THICKENS! Or, Your Suspicions May Be True
by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
Creating Multiple Identities: the Research Rabbit Hole
by N.M. Cedeño Setting a story in the past requires the author to do research to make sure the details of the story are correct. For me,...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 7, 2021
- 3 min
Tipper: My Manager Extraordinaire
by K .P. Gresham I suspect most of us have our secrets about how we survived the Pandemic of ’20-’21. Video games, binge-watching movies,...
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