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Is It Okay to Alter Nature in Our Writing?

Is It Okay to Alter Nature in Our Writing?

by D. L. Koontz | Jan 30, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer

For brevity sake, I’ll shorten what I had written:  An intricate tale of…the series takes place…on a crypt-like hillside…and the raging Potomac River…  A friend, reading my book proposal, looked up, a pout on his face. “You can’t say that,” he said. Say...
Caught Betwixt and Between the North and that South

Caught Betwixt and Between the North and that South

by D. L. Koontz | Jan 27, 2012 | Journal, Sense and Nonsense, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge

Part II of II In Part I of this Betwixt and Between rumination, I discussed the confusion experienced by we folks living in Marpennsylginia (the mid-Atlantic), caught as we are between our efficient neighbors to the North and our charming neighbors to the South....
Caught Betwixt and Between the North and the South

Caught Betwixt and Between the North and the South

by D. L. Koontz | Jan 24, 2012 | Journal, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge

Part I of II I’m originally from the North, but I spend a lot of time with Just My Joe in the South. And yet, I live in that beautiful, confused and bewildered in-between area, the mid-Atlantic region.  Or, as I call it, Marpennsylginia. We’re confused and...
Add Background Music to Your Novel…and Your Life!

Add Background Music to Your Novel…and Your Life!

by D. L. Koontz | Jan 19, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer

I know how this guy feels. He’s going on location to create the perfect background music for his story, and— What? “On location”…”Background music”– Is this a posting about cinematography or writing? Hmmm, allow me to address these two notions before...
Much Ado about This Thing Called Social Networking

Much Ado about This Thing Called Social Networking

by D. L. Koontz | Jan 17, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer, Sense and Nonsense

When I get exasperated with social networking, I often think of that poor bewildered character, “Jack.” You know the guy ― the protagonist in the children’s nursery rhyme, “The House that Jack Built.” If you need a refresher of the rhyme,...
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An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.

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