• August 5, 2010 •
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Tags: action, causal, cause-and-effect, conflict, dilemma, episodic, fiction, goal, Himalayas, Jeanette Winterson, Novel, obstacles, plot, problem, question, rise and fall, roller coaster, sword fight, The Passion, writer
• July 29, 2010 •
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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
• July 11, 2010 •
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Tags: 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, arc, artistry, crisis, obstacles, ordeal, Peter Selgin, plot, reversal novel, skill, tension, writer, writing
• July 7, 2010 •
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Tags: characters, company, compassion, fiction, guy.p, integrity, Novel, Peter Selgin, reader, Story, writer, writing
• July 1, 2010 •
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Tags: comfort zone, compulsion, constancy, encountering ourselves, history, honest, painful, personality, stamina, travel, writer, writer's block
• June 8, 2010 •
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Tags: art, artistry, creativity, edit, Essays on Creativity, grace, inspiration, literary, media, muse, mystery, narrative, Novel, poem, Ray Bradbury, reader, refinement, skill, Story, The Beloved, unconscious, victim, words, writer, writing
• May 5, 2010 •
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• April 26, 2010 •
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Tags: big dreams, dreams, Kikuyu, mantras, Martha Alderson, Plotwhisperer for Writers and Readers, show vs. tell, Story, swim, tell, unconscious, writer, writing, writing workshops
• April 18, 2010 •
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Tags: author, bootstrap, climb, crisis, eye, Kris Saknussemm, Novel, Private Midnight, Story, The Writer Magazine, Write what you know--an be sorry, writer, writing, Zanesville