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Tags: Ballantine Bantam Dell, contract, Cyril Connolly, Janet Evanovich, negotiations, protagonist, publishing, Random House, Sizzling Sixteen, St. Martins Press, Stephanie Plum, Stephanie Plum Series, Swami Vivekananda
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Tags: Brussels, challenge, change, child, children, conflict, daily round, desires, emotions, evolution, growth, human development, journey, life, Maui, meaning, narrative, pattern, plot, pre-teen, protagonist, purpose, season, Stories, structure, symbol, talisman, transformation, travel, vacation, writing
Posted in Articles & Essays
Tags: action, arc, attention, build, causality, cause-and-effect, character development, Charles Dickens, conflict, engagement, Jane Austen, Ken Follet, pacing, plot, Pride and Prejudice, protagonist, reaction, reader, tension, The Pillars of the Earth, thriller, timing, transformation, World Without End, writer
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Tags: conscious, consensual, Dr. Charles Liu, frame of reference, intertia, motion, physics, plot, point-of-view character, protagonist, reality, Story
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Tags: central character, climax, crisis, death, desire, emotion, entertain, entry, goal, grief, heart, horizontal, identification, journey, loss, major character, mental, Novel, path, physical, protagonist, reader, rebirth, renewal, sadness, satisfy, somber, spiral, tangible, vertical, yearning
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Tags: agent, author, central character, change, crisis, doubt, envy, faith, Novel, protagonist, publisher, risk, self-publish, stake, Story, survival, transcendance, transformation, writer
Posted in Musings
Tags: African Bushmen, Andrew Harvey, Anne Baring, art, characters, consciousness, Dream, God, imaginative, Novel, personality, protagonist, reality, Story, The Mystic Vision, writing
Posted in Articles & Essays
Tags: antagonist, arrogance, awareness, betrayal, death, diamond, epiphany, fear, fortitude, half-truths, honesty, illusions, life, perseverance, protagonist, rebirth, self-deception, survival, vulerability, willingness
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Tags: ache, antagonist, God, paragraph, phrase, protagonist, sentence, soul, Story, word, writing
Posted in Musings
Tags: author, characters, compassion, description, dialogue, engagement, entertainment, fiction, frailties, gratitude, mercy, mind, other, page, personality, prose, protagonist, reader, reading consciousness, Story, transformation, unconcious, weaknesses, writer