Rosemary Harris's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T15:20:36ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideohttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60987073?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=rovideo&xn_auth=noPoe's Deadly Daughterstag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-10-27:537324:BlogPost:865602007-10-27T03:38:52.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
<p>The lovely and talented ladies of Poe's Deadly Daughters have asked me to guest blog, Saturday October 28th. How cool is that? Check it out at <a href="http://poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/">http://poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Ro</p>
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<p>The lovely and talented ladies of Poe's Deadly Daughters have asked me to guest blog, Saturday October 28th. How cool is that? Check it out at <a href="http://poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/">http://poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>Ro</p>
<p/>More gender-bending...tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-22:537324:BlogPost:660042007-08-22T23:03:30.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
<p>The women of Jungle Red got such a great response to our "male/female, who wrote it" quiz, that we're doing it again. Think you can tell if something was written by a man or a woman? Check it out at <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com">www.jungleredwriters.com</a></p>
<p>Rosemary</p>
<p>PS I bet no one gets my entry...</p>
<p>The women of Jungle Red got such a great response to our "male/female, who wrote it" quiz, that we're doing it again. Think you can tell if something was written by a man or a woman? Check it out at <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com">www.jungleredwriters.com</a></p>
<p>Rosemary</p>
<p>PS I bet no one gets my entry...</p>Lovely to see you again, my friend..tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-07:537324:BlogPost:609902007-08-07T12:24:28.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
Jeez, I guess I don't blog here often. More likely to do that at <a href="http://www.360.yahoo.com/harrisgarden">www.360.yahoo.com/harrisgarden</a> or <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com">www.jungleredwriters.com</a>. No, crimespace is more like eavesdropping on other people's conversations - I do that all the time, and have gotten some of my favorite dialogue that way - or jumping in when you realize that someone in Australia, or LA, or Montana is thinking about the same thing that you…
Jeez, I guess I don't blog here often. More likely to do that at <a href="http://www.360.yahoo.com/harrisgarden">www.360.yahoo.com/harrisgarden</a> or <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com">www.jungleredwriters.com</a>. No, crimespace is more like eavesdropping on other people's conversations - I do that all the time, and have gotten some of my favorite dialogue that way - or jumping in when you realize that someone in Australia, or LA, or Montana is thinking about the same thing that you are, or at the same stage in their writing career. A trip without the travel? A conference without the calories?Back to life, back to realitytag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-06-23:537324:BlogPost:503372007-06-23T11:29:02.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
..or back to fiction, I guess. I've picked up my story after not writing for about 2 weeks (although i did work on the outline on the ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar. Wish I'd gotten a picture of that..hundreds of travellers exhausted by the heat and the rocking of the boat, wrapped in kangas, and I'm there sharpening my little pencils..) A bit of research has shown me that I'm going down the wrong (inaccurate) track on a major story line,and I'm trying not to be despondent about it.…
..or back to fiction, I guess. I've picked up my story after not writing for about 2 weeks (although i did work on the outline on the ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar. Wish I'd gotten a picture of that..hundreds of travellers exhausted by the heat and the rocking of the boat, wrapped in kangas, and I'm there sharpening my little pencils..) A bit of research has shown me that I'm going down the wrong (inaccurate) track on a major story line,and I'm trying not to be despondent about it. Still....it's fiction for pete's sake. How much do the rest of you feel obliged to stick to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but...? My series is set in a fictional town in CT.Africa, No hurrytag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-06-12:537324:BlogPost:478272007-06-12T09:53:13.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
<p>Hope i haven't appeared to be rude...re friend requests...I'm travelling in Tanzania and haven't had running water, much less internet access. In Dodoma for the day at a swanky ($60 a day) hotel so i'm treating myself to a little computer time. My husband and i are helping to fund a library in a small village in central Tanzania. The work is going very well, and i'm planning to post a lot of pix on my website if anyone's interested. (…</p>
<p>Hope i haven't appeared to be rude...re friend requests...I'm travelling in Tanzania and haven't had running water, much less internet access. In Dodoma for the day at a swanky ($60 a day) hotel so i'm treating myself to a little computer time. My husband and i are helping to fund a library in a small village in central Tanzania. The work is going very well, and i'm planning to post a lot of pix on my website if anyone's interested. (<a href="http://www.rosemaryharris.com">www.rosemaryharris.com</a>) read a terrific memoir by mystery writer Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, Girl of Tender Age, which I highly recommend. Literally couldn't put it down and not just because I was 8 miles high...</p>
<p>Kwaheri!</p>
<p>Ro</p>I, Me, Mine.....George Harrisontag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-28:537324:BlogPost:446152007-05-28T15:54:04.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
<p>"<em>I am born." "I had a farm in Africa" "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving." <br></br></em>Back in the day, novels written in the first person got some respect. When did that change? <br></br><br></br>I don't know if it's a mystery thing or a "literary" thing, but it seems that writing in third person (or some other variation or combination) gets all the reviews while first person novels are somehow written off as lightweight, anyone-can-bang-them-out yarns. When I started <em>Pushing up…</em></p>
<p>"<em>I am born." "I had a farm in Africa" "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving." <br/></em>Back in the day, novels written in the first person got some respect. When did that change? <br/><br/>I don't know if it's a mystery thing or a "literary" thing, but it seems that writing in third person (or some other variation or combination) gets all the reviews while first person novels are somehow written off as lightweight, anyone-can-bang-them-out yarns. When I started <em>Pushing up Daisies</em>, I wrote in the third person - then when it seemed I'd be writing a series I switched to first to put my protagonist right in the action. I had fun writing lines like "I whacked him in the head with the weed whacker", or "my foot connected with his nose..."</p>
<p>What do <em>you</em> guys think?</p>
<p>BTW Anyone know the titles of the books those three first lines are from? First right answer gets a kewpie doll..</p>
<p>Ro<br/></p>Please allow me to introduce myself....tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-25:537324:BlogPost:437082007-05-25T12:17:05.000ZRosemary Harrishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rovideo
<p>Yikes, this is almost as hard as writing the book was. I'm a first time writer, my book Pushing Up Daisies (St Martins 2008) is a funny (as in Carl Hiassen funny, she says modestly) mystery set in the suburbs. It's the first in a series with garden themes.</p>
<p>Gardeners have to be patient so I was well prepared for the publishing process. The writing took about 18 months, the publishing - going on 3 years. Finding an agent was the biggest hurdle. Advice to fledgling writers - don't give…</p>
<p>Yikes, this is almost as hard as writing the book was. I'm a first time writer, my book Pushing Up Daisies (St Martins 2008) is a funny (as in Carl Hiassen funny, she says modestly) mystery set in the suburbs. It's the first in a series with garden themes.</p>
<p>Gardeners have to be patient so I was well prepared for the publishing process. The writing took about 18 months, the publishing - going on 3 years. Finding an agent was the biggest hurdle. Advice to fledgling writers - don't give up. There are a zillion agents out there and if the first 5 or 50 don't like your book f&*k 'em, maybe the next one will.</p>
<p>Later</p>
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