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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: #1 The Passive Voice: Your goat wrecked my garden – versus – My garden was wrecked by your goat. Ready...
Scott Archer Jones
2 hours ago1 min read
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AN UNHAPPY COUNTRY —Loretta Miles Tollefson
Book Launches Today In 1846 in North America, the stakes couldn’t be higher for the US and Mexico. Polk has risen to the Presidency by...
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 182 min read
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From Barn To Winery To Family
What Keeps Us Coming Back
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 132 min read
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Arcadia Swept Down
Here’s a 1000 word story published in 2024 by Manzano Mountain Review. I based it on an obituary and a house in Galveston, Texas. Living...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 304 min read
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Gilgamesh - a Film Treatment For The First Action Hero
Gilgamesh Hanging Out With His Lion Meeting for NETFLIX Concept Team Scott Archer Jones History of the Story: In the third millennium,...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 166 min read
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At The Tucson Festival of Books
We're at the New Mexico Book Association at Booth #149 Selling The Moth , and our other books --- Come on by and see us -- March 15-16 on...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 121 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, New Ground
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 92 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, # 8
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 21 min read
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Requiem For A Humble Man, Part 2
See here for Part 1 Living On The Mountain ... When Vietnam had done filling him up with long-term poisons, Dave Ambrose came home to own...
ohjammer
Feb 272 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, #7
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 232 min read
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Requiem for a humble man, Part 1
Vietnam, A Prologue and Epilogue of Our Elegy Biography is tainted by the cult of the Great Man. Statesmen, Celebrities, Criminals,...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 193 min read
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Showing Point of View Through a Concrete EXample, #6
Craftier and Craftier In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process,...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 162 min read
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Showing Point of View Through a Concrete Example, #5
Third Person Point of View - the most used -> But there are three kinds.
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 92 min read
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Showing point of view through a concrete example, #4
It All Depends On Your Point of View In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 22 min read
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showing point of view through a concrete example, #3
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View
Scott Archer Jones
Jan 262 min read
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In Praise of My Darling Boy, an outstanding new book
John Dufresne's new book is opening to a big splash, with a New York Times review, a feature in Lit Hub, a launch at his favorite...
ohjammer
Jan 241 min read
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Ten Ways Your Novel Will Kill You This Winter
Scott Archer Jones Fall approaches. The novel scurries into corners, a rat-like beastie, and you attempt to slip the leash back on. You...
ohjammer
Jan 203 min read
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Showing Point of View through a Concrete Example, #2
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
ohjammer
Jan 192 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a concrete example
I’m going to use an example that casts all the points of view that I know of, since seeing the real thing is mostly better than just...
ohjammer
Jan 123 min read
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In Praise of Nan Shepherd, Scots Nature Writer Extraordinaire
Buy this book. Then, having read it deeply, give it to your best friend.
ohjammer
Jan 52 min read
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