Tag: Elle Jauffret

Friday Fancies ~ June 26, 2026

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Yikes! We’re almost to the middle of the year!!

After a live theater drought, we had two Sundays in a row at local live theatres.

I mentioned seeing The Book of Will at the Curtis on our anniversary. It’s about Shakespeare’s friends attempting to publish a folio of his plays.

I bought my complete Shakespeare, including the sonnets, on a teenage trip to Stratford-upon-Avon but I never stopped to think how the plays had been compiled. Turns out there wasn’t an equivalent to Samuel French, the company that publishes plays currently, in the 1600’s, so the scripts had to be gathered from actors and producers, and a search launched for a publisher willing to take a gamble on a fancy book of plays. Filled with love and loss, the most excellent cast gave us a lovely afternoon of theatre.

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*Catching Up*

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Holy Hearts and Shamrocks, Batman! It’s March!

Life’s been lifin’, so it’s been a while, kids. I think I’ll start with our latest museum visit and promise to catch up on reading, watching, and places we’ve been in posts I’ll get out to you soon.

I’m looking out the window right now and the trees are swaying and dancing, like fans at a Springsteen concert! It’s uber windy out there, so no walking at the park today. We did some miles on the treadmill at the gym this morning.

Yesterday morning, we managed to get out to our first writer’s meeting of the year (we were sick in January, then a downtown parade blocked our path in February ~ yes, we might have gotten there through back streets but… we didn’t 😊). So glad we got there today. Elle Jauffret, former lawyer and current mystery writer, gave an excellent talk on finding the “spine” of your book (the dramatic question that must be answered), how to keep that question top of mind throughout the story, and how to integrate different genres together organically.

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