During a conversation with a fellow author yesterday, the subject of tinkering came up. Both of us, it became clear, will read and re-read our draft chapters and stories and, as is normal, we will spot something. It can be prose, sentence construction, plot discrepancies…almost anything. In my own case, knowing that people were reading story samples resulted in me going back and re-reading the samples, only to find…yep, you guessed it, stuff that I […]
We recently returned from a week’s vacation in St. Maarten. St. Maarten is still recovering from Hurricane Irma in September 2017, exactly 4 years ago. A significant percentage of buildings are still not repaired or re-opened after that event. When we went there in 2014 we stayed at the Orient Bay nudist resort. The resort was mostly destroyed, and has yet to be rebuilt. Kind of sad to see derelict shells and roofless buildings where
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