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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10 Reasons Why Men Must Start Reading Fiction Again

10 Reasons Why Men Must Start Reading Fiction Again

This week in the Cold, the title of the episode says it all. I've got ten really great reasons why men need to start reading fiction again. And I've got a link to a long list of great, high T novels f...

3 Mar 202417min

Lovers and Warriors: On Writing Riveting Passion and Violence

Lovers and Warriors: On Writing Riveting Passion and Violence

This week in the Cold, we talk about the necessity of high stakes in a story. How scenes of love and passion must mirror ones of violence and conflict in intensity and yes, sensuality, or else the sto...

25 Feb 202420min

In Defense of Dark Humor

In Defense of Dark Humor

This week in the Cold, we're taking a deep dive into humor, particularly dark humor. We're discussing its limits - if there are any - its benefits, and the way humor is often perceived. Relevant link...

18 Feb 202420min

How Much Romance Can a Man Take?

How Much Romance Can a Man Take?

This week in the Cold, we address this the very issue of men and their tentative, at times contentious, and most of all secretive relationship to romance. I also have some surprises for you, and you'r...

11 Feb 202418min

What Does it Mean to Be an Outlier?

What Does it Mean to Be an Outlier?

This week in the Cold, we talk about the observers among us; those who never quite feel like they fit in. Outliers used to be a small, self-identified group of people, but increasingly, at least accor...

28 Jan 202419min

The Longest Shortest Twenty Years of Your Life

The Longest Shortest Twenty Years of Your Life

This week in the Cold we're embarking on a retrospective of one of the most epic stories of our lives...that of raising a family. The ups and downs, the suspense, the plot twists and turns, the page-t...

14 Jan 202415min

You Say You Want a Resolution?

You Say You Want a Resolution?

On this last day of the year, we're talking New Year's resolutions here in the Cold. Not the usual ones - giving up chocolate, blah, blah, blah - but the kinds of game-changers that have a lasting imp...

31 Des 202311min

Twelve Cold Days of Christmas

Twelve Cold Days of Christmas

In honor of the coming holidays, we're doing something a little different in the Cold. This week's listening experience is more like a song. It’s certainly inspired by a song; one I’m sure you know. ...

17 Des 202320min

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