Cold

Cold

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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Inhabiting the Ruins: Abandoned Places and Forgotten Souls are the Cornerstones of Great Stories

Inhabiting the Ruins: Abandoned Places and Forgotten Souls are the Cornerstones of Great Stories

This week in the Cold, we talk about the artist Mirna Pavlovic's obsession with grand, abandoned places and how her vision corresponds with a writer's (at least this writer's) exploration of damaged c...

9 Heinä 202312min

Please Stay for the Fireworks! (Some thoughts on the American story.)

Please Stay for the Fireworks! (Some thoughts on the American story.)

This week in the Cold, we're celebrating American Independence Day by talking about family lore and the impact it has on our lives as citizens and creators. My own family's harrowing American story ha...

2 Heinä 202317min

On Making a Man

On Making a Man

This week in the Cold, we're celebrating Father's Day by talking about what it takes to make a man - both in fiction and in the Homeric journey of parenting. And yes, they overlap big time - at least ...

15 Kesä 202319min

Noir: Revisited and Reimagined

Noir: Revisited and Reimagined

This week in the Cold, we're pouring ourselves a whiskey, lighting up a smoke, and slipping into the wonderful, seedy, stylish, dark, and darkly funny world of Noir! Victoria's Amazon Page (including...

4 Kesä 202317min

The Myths and Truths of a Creator's Life

The Myths and Truths of a Creator's Life

This week in the Cold we're talking about really makes up the creative life, picking apart the actual bones of creativity, and the foundation upon which wild notions and beautiful things are built. ...

21 Touko 202312min

Approaching Fiction Like a Scientist

Approaching Fiction Like a Scientist

This week in the Cold, we're talking about the difficulties inherent in taking a fresh, cold eye to your own work. In making your metaphors original, lyrical, and true, and turning the everyday into t...

7 Touko 202317min

A Slavic Eye for Cold War Nostalgia

A Slavic Eye for Cold War Nostalgia

This week in the Cold, we're going all in on the Cold War! I've been immersing myself in Cold War art, photography and aesthetics as I've been writing a new, episodic Cold War noir thriller set in Mos...

30 Huhti 202316min

Checking for Monsters Under Our Beds

Checking for Monsters Under Our Beds

This week in the Cold, we talk about how the stories we create and consume allow us to explore our deepest darkest fears. Listen...IF YOU DARE! Victoria's Amazon Page: Amazon.com: Victoria Dougherty:...

23 Huhti 202321min