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  1. Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023

    If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

    #Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

  2. Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023

    If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

    #Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

  3. Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023

    If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

    #Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

  4. Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023

    If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

    #Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

  5. Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023

    If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

    #Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

  6. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

    Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

  7. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

    Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

  8. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

    Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

  9. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

    Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

  10. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?

    Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.

  11. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

    #RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

    At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

  12. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

    #RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

    At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

  13. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

    #RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

    At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

  14. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

    #RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

    At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

  15. #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

    #RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

    At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

  16. #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

    This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

  17. #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

    This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

  18. #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

    This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

  19. #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

    This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

  20. #WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

    This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

  21. #TomSelleck also said #RobertBParker's work was easy to adapt, that you could just take his dialogue from the books, yet the #Spenser movies Parker adapted himself were far less popular than Selleck's #JesseStone movies.

  22. #TomSelleck also said #RobertBParker's work was easy to adapt, that you could just take his dialogue from the books, yet the #Spenser movies Parker adapted himself were far less popular than Selleck's #JesseStone movies.

  23. Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

    #WordWeavers Feb. 26

  24. Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

    #WordWeavers Feb. 26

  25. Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

    #WordWeavers Feb. 26

  26. Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

    #WordWeavers Feb. 26

  27. Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

    #WordWeavers Feb. 26

  28. #WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

    I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

    #RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

  29. #WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

    I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

    #RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

  30. #WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

    I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

    #RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

  31. #WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

    I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

    #RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

  32. #WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

    I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

    #RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

  33. #WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 1: Intro update: Shameless Self Promotion. Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know.

    I'm a writer of poetry and short stories. I've also edited print poetry books and a weekly poetry site. Most recently I created a public room on #Matrix for Fans of #RobertBParker. Here's a link list from my blog: geraldso.blogspot.com/p/site.h

  34. #WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 1: Intro update: Shameless Self Promotion. Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know.

    I'm a writer of poetry and short stories. I've also edited print poetry books and a weekly poetry site. Most recently I created a public room on #Matrix for Fans of #RobertBParker. Here's a link list from my blog: geraldso.blogspot.com/p/site.h

  35. #WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 1: Intro update: Shameless Self Promotion. Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know.

    I'm a writer of poetry and short stories. I've also edited print poetry books and a weekly poetry site. Most recently I created a public room on #Matrix for Fans of #RobertBParker. Here's a link list from my blog: geraldso.blogspot.com/p/site.h