A Musing on Vocabularic Butterflies
We have touched on the topic of this blog post before – that language is not static; it is a living human enterprise, it changes and...
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debcourt
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Fun with Literary Insults and Our Need for Comedy
I got to thinking about insults recently after reading a novel (Nine Perfect Strangers, by Lianne Moriarty) in which a teen-aged brother...
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debcourt
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Musings on Nyms and Phobias
Once again inspired by something sent by a friend and blog subscriber, I would like today to address the whole sorry business of nyms....
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debcourt
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
Limericks: Lecherous, loose, lusty, lewd, lascivious?
No, this is not a post about alliteration. Stop that. This post is about the limerick as a verse form. A few weeks ago a friend and...
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debcourt
- Apr 15, 2021
- 4 min
Words That Never Were
My husband and I were sitting at the dinner table a few days ago, he chewing discontentedly on the vegan meat I had served him. We were...
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debcourt
- Apr 7, 2021
- 4 min
What is a Good Book?
A friend and blog subscriber recently sent me the following quote by the late writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson: "No two persons...
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debcourt
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
New Horizons for the Modest Pronoun
A modest soul, the pronoun. Not like the endlessly descriptive adjective. Not like the world-defining noun. Not like the decorative and...
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debcourt
- Mar 9, 2021
- 4 min
The New Toyota's Are In!
Circa 1990. A street in Vancouver, British Columbia. A sign on the large window of an automobile dealership. A woman is passing. She...
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debcourt
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
Who is a Writer?
One of the interesting things coming out of this blog-writing experience is the heartfelt comments I have received from people who say,...
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debcourt
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
The History of the Blob
'The Blob' was a 1958 movie starring, unbelievably, Steve McQueen. In the movie an alien lifeform (not played by Steve McQueen) consumes...
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debcourt
- Feb 14, 2021
- 4 min
Writers' Road
Academic writing versus novel writing – the process "Creative writing," as we used to call it in school, and in which one can still gain...
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debcourt
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
Writers' Road
The contributors to this guest post on writing are not really guests. Truth is, they're not really my friends – oh, let's come right out...
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debcourt
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Writers' Road
I am pleased to offer the first guest post in what I hope will be a variety of offerings by different authors. I hope to present authors'...
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debcourt
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
Waking up my blog
I am not a natural blogger, but I am an obsessive writer. From now on I earnestly pledge to post more often. I've been thinking about...
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debcourt
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
Goodreads!
I am pleased to be a Goodreads author and to have my blog linked to both my professional website and my Goodreads site. Welcome,...
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debcourt
- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
Maggie Dunn is back!
The second book in the Maggie Dunn trilogy will be available before the end of December. Watch for this exciting new chapter in Maggie's...
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debcourt
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Wit, Whimsey, Wonder, Weirdness and Wisdom of Palindromes
As you know from Summer's Lie, Jane, Maggie and I love palindromes. For Jane especially, they provide a sense of both whimsy and order in...
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debcourt
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Dorothy Budge's Scottish Scones
I hope you have read Summer's Lie and are eagerly awaiting the sequel, When Bodies Fall. In When Bodies Fall you will meet a solid...
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debcourt
- Jun 28, 2020
- 1 min
Deborahcourtbooks is on-line!
Hello, dear readers. I want to hear from you! Please write me about Summer's Lie, about what you think life would be like if you became...
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