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Cold is the storyteller's church. It is the way revenge is best served; the way a war was fought; the way a story should be told. Join fiction writer, essayist, and blogger, Victoria Dougherty, to ponder the creative life, and endeavor to look at the stories we tell and the stories we live with a cold eye, but never a cold heart. And please visit the Cold blog at www.victoriadougherty.wordpress.com. Wordpress, which hosts over 70 million blogs has named Cold as one of its best blogs on writers and about writing.

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Prague, My Alma Mater

Prague, My Alma Mater

This week in the Cold, we talk about the institutions and experiences that shape our lives, change our trajectories, and allow us to see ourselves anew. We get contemplative, sentimental, and philosop...

3 Loka 202314min

Family Lore: The Ghostly Impact of an Estranged Parent on Our Stories and Our Lives

Family Lore: The Ghostly Impact of an Estranged Parent on Our Stories and Our Lives

This week in the COLD, we dive back into family lore. We explore estrangement from a parent, grief, and the unorthodox gift of a misfit relative. Please find a comfortable spot, pour yourself somethin...

24 Syys 202329min

If You've Managed to Move an Audience, You've Succeeded

If You've Managed to Move an Audience, You've Succeeded

This week in the Cold, I tell you all about one of the biggest pieces of shite that I've not only ever come across, but actually had the audacity to translate and produce for the stage. And I say this...

19 Syys 202312min

Do You Hear That? It's Your Muse Talking.

Do You Hear That? It's Your Muse Talking.

This week in the Cold, we're talking about learning to listen to our muses, and subsequently, developing our true voices as writers. Will you write explicit sex into a love scene, or leave most of tha...

11 Syys 202318min

A Few Words About Taking on More Than We Think We Can Handle (spoiler alert: I'm for it)

A Few Words About Taking on More Than We Think We Can Handle (spoiler alert: I'm for it)

This week in the Cold, I give you the skinny about what it's been like to renovate a nearly two-hundred-year-old house over the course of almost twenty years, and how this process mirrors the creative...

5 Syys 202317min

Capturing the Local: A Yankee’s Thoughts on Living in the South

Capturing the Local: A Yankee’s Thoughts on Living in the South

This week on Cold, we talk about absorbing and interpreting our very own surroundings as part of our stories. We delve into my experience as a northerner who has now lived most of her adult life in th...

29 Elo 202320min

August in the Cold

August in the Cold

This week in the Cold, we're stripping off our clothes and laying in the heat. We're scratching our mosquito bites with complete abandon, bathing in any body of water that is not a bathtub, singing ou...

20 Elo 20239min

The Tale of a Country Mouse and City Mouse…Updated a Bit

The Tale of a Country Mouse and City Mouse…Updated a Bit

This week in the Cold, we're celebrating summer with my own updated story of the country mouse and city mouse. This one is complete with teenage girls, bugs and snakes, visits to The Met, ghosts, Civi...

16 Heinä 202320min