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by PJColando | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The other day I wrote about narrative arc, positing that a famous, mega-selling author eschews the literary cornerstone. His protagonist, Jack Reacher, never changes, and readers, especially women of a certain age, love him. But Jack Reacher is fiction, and Ethan...
by PJColando | Jan 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Spoiler alert: this post is a Rambler with no Narrative Arc. Narrative Arc is not like Noah’s Ark, a Biblical tale with a narrative arc, if there ever was one. Imagine it: all of the critters of the world, cruising 2×2. My husband are going to cruise, just...
by PJColando | Jan 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am PJ Colando and this is my daily appointment to write. Be fast or you won’t see this post – it’s a blog course assignment and I purloined the media… So, this post may be toast before long. I’m an Irish lassie, believing in order, but...
by PJColando | Jan 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Cars honking, leaf blower buzzing, ambulance chasing, copters chopping, radios blasting, dogs barking, toddlers wailing, a murder of crows cawing at a bobcat strolling the ‘hood… what do these have in common? No, this is not a parody of the ‘Twelve...
by PJColando | Dec 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Tis the season of giving, sparked by Giving Tuesday on December 1. I hope you gave your heart out that day along with lots of dough (not the bakery kind, though I posted about that last week). If you didn’t replace the jingle of personally pocketed coins with...
by PJColando | Dec 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
I just went over to communally bake cookies and I was barely ten feet and ten minutes inside the door when she pounced without an ounce of compunction to ask: “Do you say ‘Merry Christmas’ in greeting at this time of year?” Well, I do. But, her...
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