Writing
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Placing a Red Bow on Downton Abbey
Why Some Stories Don’t Need a Reboot “So,” I said, turning to my friend as the credits rolled up the movie screen. “Did you like it?” The “it” I was referring to, was the movie adaptation of Downton Abbey, the British TV series broadcast as part of PBS Masterpiece Theatre. The series ran for six…
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Pretty geeked…
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The Woman at 72 Derry Lane… A 60-Second Book Review
From Gone Girl to Orphan Train, the telling of stories through dual narrative provides readers with a strong sense of immersion from multiple viewpoints—allowing the author to delve deeper into the lives of the book’s protagonists. Written by Carmel Harrington, The Woman at 72 Derry Lane takes readers on a rollercoaster ride as multiple stories…
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My Disdain of the Em Dash
As a writer I have an uncomfortable relationship with punctuation, and the fight comes from every direction. At work, my business partner is not amused by my cavalier attitude towards the comma and ellipses. And my editor threatened to divorce me more than once over my insistence on using the common hyphen over the unattractive em dash—a…
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