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M. Jaynes

Cakepan II: Chapter One – No Way Home

November 22, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. This is our second story. For this story we used a random plot generator, which [...]

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Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter Six: Chapped and Trapped

November 1, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. You can start reading at Chapter One, which began with the premise: “An unemployed teacher, [...]

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Is a Good Mystery Hard to Find? Part II: The Lehane Addiction

August 6, 2010

Cover of Shutter Island: A Novel One of our blog readers made an excellent point in response to Part I of this series of blog posts (Thank you Katie!). She stated that most mysteries are more plot-driven than character-driven. This explains why in some mystery novels, the characters seem a little flat. Luckily, I believe [...]

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Is A Good Mystery Hard To Find?

July 23, 2010

Cover of Crooked House (Minotaur Mysteries) As a child, I grew up admiring and reading such super-sleuths as Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown. My tastes changed as I grew older and I found myself drawn to true crime novels where the only mystery was what made a person crack and commit such heinous acts as [...]

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Books That Influence: A Coney Island of the Mind

June 23, 2010

Lawrence Ferlinghetti via last.fm Starting out as a young writer I never wrote stories. Poetry was more my speed. And as a young poet I wrote my share of really, really bad poetry complete with awkward rhymes and sappy subject matter. But somewhere in my junior year of high school I was introduced to a [...]

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