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Does Description Work For Your Reader, or Against Them?

Les Edgerton   “When we are told that a Handsome Prince went into a wood, we realize that we are that Handsome Prince. As soon as the prince is characterized, ‘A Handsome Blond Prince with a twinkle in his eye, and just the hint of a mustache on his upper lip…’ and if we lack […]

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Divine Inspiration… Or Not: Mining Your Life for Story

Kate Moretti A few weeks ago, the fabulous Kimberly Brock wrote a post about the fear of the blank page. She claimed that there are people who love it and she called them psychopaths and equated it to jumping out of airplanes. I’m here to confess: I am that psychopath. I just handed in my […]

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Writing For and About Children: Find Your Childlike Wonder

Donna Galanti When I was a kid I used to sneak into people’s coat closets when visiting with my parents, hoping to find a Narnia world on the other side. I would huddle in the dark, beneath winter coats, imagining an older world long gone as I hid among musty wool. If I sat long […]

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10 Strategies of Successful Ghostwriters

John Peragine   When a fellow writer finds out what I do for a living, they usually have a hundred questions. They span from how do I capture someone else’s voice, to how do I find leads. A common question I get is: "Does it ever bother me if that I don’t get my name […]

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Have You Embraced Your Natural Voice?

Julie Glover When I first began writing novels, I longed to pen my prose like the literary greats I’d read in high school and college. Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allen Poe, Leo Tolstoy, etc. were my beacons of beautiful prose. But alas, their light flickered on me. Because I couldn’t seem to get two […]

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