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Month: May 2023

Surrounded by beauty – Can an object ask you to commit a crime? PART TWO OF TWO

May 31, 2023 Lane Stone Contemporary Culture, True Crime

WHAT COMES OVER SOME PEOPLE?In part one, we asked if art crime was different from other illegal activity. When there’s[…]

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Building Stronger Characters

May 29, 2023 Emilya Naymark Creating Characters, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized, Writing

Elena Hartwell’s The Construction of Character helps writers strengthen the craft tools in their toolbox and build stronger characters, regardless of genre.

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Character Revolt?

May 26, 2023 Catherine Maiorisi Uncategorized

I’ve said it often so you probably know I’m a pantser.  My process is messy but I’ve written ten books[…]

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MICHELE ON THE LAM

May 24, 2023 C. Michele Dorsey Uncategorized, Writers inspirations

How I came to be living on the lam is a long story, starting with living in Massachusetts, where the[…]

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Ghost Rules

May 22, 2023 Susan Breen Fiction, Tips and Tricks, Writing

Some years ago, an editor rejected a story of mine because it contained a ghost. He had a policy of[…]

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Why Can’t We All Just Play Nice?

May 20, 2023 Sharon Ward Contemporary Culture, Self Publishing, Self-publishing, Social Media, Writing

So this one’s a bit of a rant. If you’re an author, you may have been following the recent story[…]

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The Coronation: Three Things You Didn’t Know

May 17, 2023 Connie Berry Contemporary Culture

Yes, I’m an Anglophile, so of course I got up early to watch the coronation of King Charles III. For most people, it was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. And spectacle it was with all the pomp and circumstance one could wish for. But what did it all mean?

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Words! Words! Words!

May 15, 2023 Marni Graff Editing, Writers habits, Writing

So sings julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, complaining about too many words  said to her that[…]

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Using Description to Advance Plot and Deepen Character

May 12, 2023 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Writers inspirations

I’ve often heard from beta readers that they need a physical description of a character to picture him or her.

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WHAT WE DIDN’T SEE AT THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III

May 10, 2023 Lane Stone Contemporary Culture

The Coronation… My next blog was supposed to be Part 2 of “Can an Object Make You Commit a Crime?”[…]

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