Musings of a Writer
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History, Treasure, and Why It Matters
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"It's spent the last 400 years at the bottom of the ocean!"
The curator eyed my latest treasure with a critical eye. I waited and watched his reaction, anticipating something positive would come from his evaluation of the piece. But his years of appraising rare jewelry and historical artifacts gave him a poker-face visage I couldn't read. He was good!
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Not Really Romantic...Not Really
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I really, really don’t like romances. Okay, well maybe I like “You’ve Got Mail” (there are books in that movie) and “Sleepless in Seattle” (I live there), but I seriously never choose a romance movie or book. That genre just isn’t for me.
Writing a love scene was another story. I don’t know how to do that. Everything I put onto paper sounded corny and fake. So, I did what I do best and substituted a sword fight or death into said-love-scene.
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Storms and Struggle
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It seems times have grown tempestuous and society's skies have darkened. The storm is no longer coming...it's here. A maelstrom, really. What doe... -
A Pirate's Life for Me
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You swing a fist and raise a mug, singing those words as you fantasize about the Golden Age of Pirates. It was a glorious time…according to Hollywood. But historians paint a different picture filled will hard days at sea, scurvy, violence, and probable death.So, why do we glorify those cutthroats? -
The Power of Yesterday
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(original post Feb. 2019) "Make it EPIC!" Kevin added just before he hung up the phone... His request was simply to write another screenplay, some...
