Tag Archives: 2023

Except He Doesn’t Proofread My Blog Posts

Posted on March 13, 2023 by PB Rippey

Now that the Feb (me) and March (spouse) event-packed birthdays are over, it’s back to work. I purposefully let my MG synopsis and the first 10 pages of the ms. marinate for a few days. Still feeling positive after reading … Continue reading →

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Fielding Distractions

Posted on February 28, 2023 by PB Rippey

SoCal rainstorms and SNOW!!! and my (feels-like-95th) birthday have distracted me from completing important tasks since Valentine’s Day (also a distraction), such as wiping puppy noseprints from windows, or filling in gopher holes. However, I’m not distracted from my creativity–writing, … Continue reading →

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Time to Read

Posted on February 14, 2023 by PB Rippey

Valentine’s Day present from husband and the teen. Perfect! Wish I could start reading now. Yours in hearts and candy (whether chocolate or books), PB

Posted in Writing | Tagged 2023, fiction, good books, great literature, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait, women authors | Leave a comment

Absolutely the Place

Posted on February 9, 2023 by PB Rippey

Took me a while to finish this novel, but not because it’s not riveting. I was savoring each chapter. Maggie O’Farrell’s ability to introduce multiple characters on a page and pull out their souls for the reader to examine? A … Continue reading →

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Cormorants

Posted on February 3, 2023 by PB Rippey

Loglines/writing break, waiting for the refrigerator repair person to arrive between now and 4 hours from now, recovering from the debilitating cold the teen had last week, took the puppy on a brief walk to the pond, where we quietly … Continue reading →

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Hearts on the Horizon

Posted on January 26, 2023 by PB Rippey

Hurtling towards February, my birthday month, I’m still writing every day thanks to Nephele Tempest’s December Writing Challenge AND I almost have my synopsis ready (though–are synopses ever really ready?) for my women’s fiction novel AND the synopses for my … Continue reading →

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December Writing Challenge Results

Posted on January 16, 2023 by PB Rippey

December ’22 was a zephyr on steroids, for me. For you, too? And yet–Christmas Day passed in slow motion: walks, long phonecalls with out of town family, cooking-while-socializing (sans panic), everyone snoozing by 10pm (except for the gaming teenager). So–Nephele … Continue reading →

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More on loglines

Posted on January 10, 2023 by PB Rippey

Instead of grousing about writing loglines, I’m sharing my go-to list when composing them. My husband, the scriptwriter, calls this list a formula. Although the following doesn’t make my grousing cease, it does temper it and, truthfully, makes approaching writing … Continue reading →

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O Loglines!

Posted on January 6, 2023 by PB Rippey

To be 100% honest, I hate writing them. I tell myself: fantastic writing exercise! Or: you’ve just written 5 potential maybe-winners! Or: it’s midnight WTH. And: time to pay somebody. Query letter, synopsis, logline are sometimes the ONLY bits in … Continue reading →

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Night Writing Paradise

Posted on January 3, 2023 by PB Rippey

If I was to write solely by night, every night I would want to do it here: Which is also here: Here: And especially here: Sadly, this installation is temporary. I did let them know I’d be happy to take … Continue reading →