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FORMAT: WHY IT MATTERS
Studies show that the average editor views over a hundred manuscripts each month. This includes, but is not limited to, works by authors currently under contract with the...
CHARACTERS ON DEATH
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IN MEMORY: BOBBIE MOORE
Into His hands, my dear, dear friend... 8/23/2008
SUSPENDING DISBELIEF
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... What does a writer do when a novel contains an element that requires a serious suspension of disbelief? How exactly does the writer...
TRUE POWER
WRITER OLYMPICS
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Along with about 74 million others, I’ve been watching some of the Olympics. And being in a playful sort of mood after several days with my...
IT IS WHAT IT IS
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Whether character traits or disciplines or methods or a chain of events, when we craft a novel or live a life, we reach points when the...
LOST
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Writers are human, and being human they experience the same things emotionally that others experience. It is their ability to relate these...
CELEBRATION TIME
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Occasionally, we have the rare privilege of feeling as if we’re in the right place at the right time with the right people with the right...
HOW-TO CREATE CREDIBILITY
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Remember how I said that questions tend to come in clusters. Well, the current cluster relates to credibility and events, all of which relate...
PROLOGUES AND FLASHBACKS: LIABILITY OR ASSET?
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Is the Prologue or the Flashback an asset or a liability? Seems like a simple question, doesn’t it? But this is a case when what seems to be...
HOMETOWN TRAGEDY
WARNING: This is a no-edit zone... Yesterday, a man was murdered. He was a deputy sheriff--the first from our town to be shot and killed while on duty. A man, it appears, had...
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