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What's Past Is Prologue by C.D. Watson
What’s Past Is Prologue

What’s Past Is Prologue

I’m re-reading the Daughters of the People Series (Lucy Varna) to refresh my memory on the characters, events, and writing style, in preparation for developing and writing the final novel, War’s Last Refuge. The Prophecy, the first book in the series, was the very first novel I finished and published, and also the first one I rewrote. It’s been interesting to read just to see how my writing has changed. More, it was a complete surprise to discover how good…

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How Story Is Like a Game of Cards

How Story Is Like a Game of Cards

Note: This post was originally published on the Lucy Varna blog. My parents played a lot of cards when I was growing up. They had a whole clique of fellow card players whose houses we would rotate through on the weekends for mini-tournaments of Rummy (of all kinds), Rook, Cribbage, or whatever the flavor of the moment was. Around the time I turned eleven, someone turned my parents on to Canasta, the most enduring of all the games my parents played….

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