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Six Suggestions For Creative Prompts The two most frequent questions I receive as an author are, “What is your writing[…]
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Six Suggestions For Creative Prompts The two most frequent questions I receive as an author are, “What is your writing[…]
Read moreVanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]
Read moreAre you a good witch or a bad witch? When Dorothy crash lands in Oz, she answers Glinda’s baffling question[…]
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Read moreSensational can mean many things. It can mean fabulous, trashy, astounding. But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today,[…]
Read moreI was having a discussion with my critique partners the other day, and one of them, Matt Witten, mentioned how[…]
Read moreNothing makes your characters pop off the page like well chosen phrases in their dialog. Have her use specific, well[…]
Read moreAnd how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]
Read moreThe first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
Read moreAs you know, I love Vanity Fair. At the back of the magazine is a “Proust Questionnaire” where they ask[…]
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