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Tag Archives: kindle
Anything You Damn Well Want
For the past month I have been blogging about the different tools and techniques for successful writing. Some of us are lucky and have the genius and talent to have all the aspects right from the start. But for others … Continue reading
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I Could Weep Sometimes
“I’ve never in my life written anything more difficult than these conversations full of trivialities. This scene at the inn may take me three months for all I know. I could weep sometimes, I feel so helpless….” Gustave Flaubert In … Continue reading
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The Scariest Moment
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King Do you have daily problems with your writing? Are you afraid that your sentences don’t read right, that your paragraph doesn’t sound … Continue reading
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There’s A Lot Of Scenery But
Setting: Location, surroundings, scenery, situation, background, set, locale, site, venue, backdrop. (These are the synonyms listed in the thesaurus.) Setting is where your story takes place, its locale. But as Sinclair Lewis said: “When I want to learn about the … Continue reading
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Another Human Being On The Page
“The novelist’s job is to see and say clearly what people are.” John Masters Do you ever get stuck while creating your characters? Some seem to be dull, others cliché and you spend endless hours thinking how to make them … Continue reading
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There Are No Rules
Nina Bawden once said: “You know people better in a novel than in real life because you know what people think – not just what they say they think.” During a Writers News correspondence course on novel writing, after I … Continue reading
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The Whole Thing Is Hocus-Pocus
Arthur Hailey wrote: “There are people whom you meet in life who have a tremendous influence on you, and my agent was one.” Almost everyone who teaches writing or is connected to the publishing world will agree that the best … Continue reading
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I Haven’t The Slightest Idea
Tom Clancy said: “I didn’t think there’s an English teacher in the world that doesn’t encourage you to write. All mine did.” While Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Alan Dean, Clive Cussler all received encouragement to write from several teachers, others … Continue reading
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Are You A Horizontal Or Vertical Writer?
No era has been more technologically advanced than the one we live in and yet to this day there are writers whose first drafts are never created with the use of digital aids. For me there’s something magical about using … Continue reading
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It’s A Farce
Do you think writing schools can teach you how to write? Barbara Bradford Taylor said: “Writing cannot be taught, it can be learned.” “Now that’s a bad comment,” wrote Craig Thomas. “I think the passion for language cannot be born, … Continue reading
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