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Daily Prompt: Pick Your Gadget (1930s please!)
Well, this is an easy daily prompt! First stop Portia Adam‘s first scene in Jewel of the Thames – January 20, 1930 in Toronto. Next stop – 1930 – London when Portia and Mrs. Jones pull up to 221 Baker Street. I’d love to do some real fact-checking with a friendly time machine. Answer the…
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Daily Post: Nice is as Nice Does
Oooh, this is a good daily prompt because I’ve been thinking about this a lot. As I get into my final edits with Jewel of the Thames, one of the scenes that became a sticking point between my editor and I brought up the startling idea in my mind: do they know that Portia is…
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Daily Prompt: Standing Out and then Fading into the Background
As always, I only take on a Daily Prompt for this blog when I think it pertains to my characters, and in this case, it very much does. “When was the last time you really stood out in a crowd? Are you comfortable in that position, or do you wish you could fade into the…
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Daily Prompt: Portia’s Flip Flop
So as you might know, I only take on a Daily Prompt for this blog when I think it pertains to my characters and because of the last casebook I just finished writing, and am now transcribing, I can participate in this one! The Prompt: Think of a topic or issue about which you’ve switched your opinion. Why…
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Daily Prompt: The Normal
As always, I only take on a Daily Prompt for this blog when I think it pertains to my characters, and in this case, it very much does. Portia Adams is not what you would consider normal, except in the most visual sense. She looks normal, she dresses ‘normal’ for her time, and she doesn’t…
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Daily Prompt: Your time to shine
As probably best evidenced by when I am writing this, I do my best work in the mornings. But like a few other of the respondents to this Daily Post (I read all your posts my friends, another thing I like to do on Saturday mornings) I often get some fantastic ideas in the middle…
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WordPress Daily Prompt: page 82 of the nearest book
The prompt: Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow. The book: The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R Tolkein No, answered Frodo, coming back to himself, out of darkness, and finding to his surprise that it was not dark, and…