#robertbparker — Public Fediverse posts
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Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html
If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.
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Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html
If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.
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Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html
If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.
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Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html
If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.
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Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html
If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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Fellow #RobertBParker fans, here are my early impressions of 2024's announced continuation novels - #AlisonGaylin's 2nd #SunnyRandall and #MikeLupica's 2nd #Spenser: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/
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Fellow #RobertBParker fans, here are my early impressions of 2024's announced continuation novels - #AlisonGaylin's 2nd #SunnyRandall and #MikeLupica's 2nd #Spenser: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/
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If you know of any #Matrix rooms for #Fiction readers, I'm looking for recommendations. I started one for fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org
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If you know of any #Matrix rooms for #Fiction readers, I'm looking for recommendations. I started one for fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org
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If you know of any #Matrix rooms for #Fiction readers, I'm looking for recommendations. I started one for fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org
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If you know of any #Matrix rooms for #Fiction readers, I'm looking for recommendations. I started one for fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 28 — What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?
I'm fine w/ it. It helps bring characters into a specific place and time. #IanFleming used real brands. #RobertBParker did. OTOH, it's also fine to invent brands as #LawrenceBlock does. However, if there's no purpose using a brand name, it's not necessary.
I used a real type of jeep in my story "Fred" b/c I wanted readers to have a real point of reference:
https://www.mysterytribune.com/fred-private-eye-flash-fiction-by-gerald-so/