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Oh, those WIPs!
A writer’s WIPs, the Works in Progress, can be exciting or they can be discouraging. In my case, they’re both. I have The Great Idea for...

Marlene Lewis
Mar 26, 20244 min read
Out of the Covid Blues
All right, I can't blame it all on Covid, although it's convenient. Yes, there were plenty of disruptions during the past couple of...

Marlene Lewis
Sep 5, 20231 min read


The Day the World Came to Town
If the title of this book doesn’t intrigue you, the story certainly will. I just finished reading Jim DeFede’s account of events that...

Marlene Lewis
Mar 28, 20212 min read
Playing with Words . . . and Culture
The newspaper we subscribe to is the Peninsula Daily News, which is daily from Sunday through Friday. Since the important news items of...

Marlene Lewis
Mar 7, 20212 min read


Covid Cogitations
Here I sit in “Sunny Sequim” feeling personally insulted that the weather had the nerve to drop snow on us. There’s no real reason to...

Marlene Lewis
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Medieval Underpants
The title of this journal post caught your attention, didn’t it! Just as the title of Susanne Alleyn’s little book does—Medieval...

Marlene Lewis
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Researching and Writing
Research is essential to writing--fiction as well as nonfiction.

Marlene Lewis
Jan 18, 20213 min read


The Sound of Dialogue
Everyone has an opinion about the value of reading a book versus watching the movie—almost as many opinions as there are recipes for...

Marlene Lewis
Jan 5, 20212 min read
Thoughts and More (or less)
Hurray for the New Year 2021 and welcome to Marlene's Journal! This page is actually a blog, but the sound of the word blog not only...

Marlene Lewis
Jan 3, 20211 min read
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