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Chapter 6: Thai Dishes of Choice by Ethan C. Adam
Today's blog is all about food--Thai food, to be exact. In my novel, Rewriting Adam, I mention three specific dishes that my protagonist...

Connie Inglis
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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Melody Jamal Smith
Names are important. We'll get to that. Last week I did something that I'd never done before. No, I didn't go bungee jumping or sky...

Connie Inglis
May 3, 20223 min read
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Limericks, Lyrics, and Lots of Variety
I recently had a discussion with my brother-in-law who'd just finished reading my novel. He said he loved all the poetry I incorporated,...

Connie Inglis
Nov 2, 20212 min read
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Poetry, Purpose, and Power
Are you familiar with the following poem? How does it make you feel? Even though Rewriting Adam is a novel, I wanted to incorporate my...

Connie Inglis
Jul 12, 20212 min read
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Taking the Plunge
Do you ever feel like an African wildebeest jumping heedlessly into the unknown? I've felt like that ever since I took the plunge into...

Connie Inglis
Jul 3, 20212 min read
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Do you hear it, Gramma? Do you see it, Bada? Part 2
In my granddaughter's mindfulness to the sound of an airplane in the sky, I realized something else. And that is, how important sound is...

Connie Inglis
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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The Semantics of Words
99,468. Does that number mean anything to you? How about if I told you that's the number of words in my novel. Does that mean anything to...

Connie Inglis
May 17, 20212 min read
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BOOK COVER REVEAL -- FINALLY!
Okay. Okay. I know you've been patiently waiting. Hopefully it will be worth the wait! These were the four choices from my poll back in...

Connie Inglis
Apr 27, 20211 min read
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Links, Lynx, and my Sci-Fi Mind
I'll be the first to admit that I'm NOT technologically savvy. Up until now, I've done pretty well at learning the basics. But what I've...

Connie Inglis
Feb 23, 20212 min read
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That UNSETTLING first line.
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell, 1984. The novel that brought us "Big Brother,"...

Connie Inglis
Jan 31, 20212 min read
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ANOTHER FAMOUS FIRST LINE
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina (transl....

Connie Inglis
Jan 24, 20212 min read
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
A novel's opening line. I've never been happy with mine. And so I've been reworking the opening scene to make it better. How do I improve...

Connie Inglis
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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A Novel is Born
That fall, in a fiction-writing course, I wrote the first five chapters of a novel.

Connie Inglis
Dec 8, 20201 min read
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Newbie Novelling
Snippets of life as a novelist working toward publishing my first novel. I have been working on a novel titled Rewriting Adam for the...

Connie Inglis
May 12, 20202 min read
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