Pamela Merritt
ThrillerWriter@c.im
<p>she/her/they - in love with narrative drive & multigenre - <a href="https://c.im/tags/CatAppreciator" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatAppreciator</span></a> - learning the ukulele - Oxford comma supporter</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/spoonie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spoonie</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writer</span></a> working on historical mystery thriller - I warned you</p><p>Avatar is a white woman with light hair and a burgundy top / header is a blue ink wash of a film noir staircase with gloved hands pointing a revolver down the stairs <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noir" clas
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Post #3259850
Thanking of plot twists made me go back to the two greatest book reveals I&#39;ve personally experienced. One of them is Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier. The other was called Smith and Jones. By the extraordinarily stylist, Nicholas Monserrat. Most famous is Agatha Christie&#39;s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It&#39;s a tricky task. #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity
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Post #3259849
What I learned from Kindle Unlimited today is how much carefully crafted characters will work for readers. My personal Best of Action/Adventure includes Kahawa by Donald E. Westlake. A new series in KU probably won&#39;t deliver something so multi-layered and dense with history. Yet what they both have is vivid characters. Several times now this author has killed people off in the space of a chapter or two. Yet they felt real enough, for long enough, that I&#39;m not quibbling about som...
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Post #3259848
This is one of my favorite books about writing. Works with any kind, too. #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #Writers
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Post #3259847
I really need to finish the current book so I called for divine intervention. Hunter S Thompson Sainted Writers Prayer Candle “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” #WIP #bookstodon #writers
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Post #3259846
As a time of assorted mayhem comes to what I hope is a close, (CLOSE, DAMN YOU,) I emerge from the gloom with a newly assembled Writing Studio. Bud Abbott welcomes me to the daybed. I experimented with a mattress-on-the-floor style. Turns out I enjoy reclining with a lap desk far more than sitting at an actual desk. Don&#39;t make writing &quot;work&quot; because it should be play. That&#39;s how I managed three sloppy drafts to work on fer reals. Despite it all. #WritingComm...