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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If the act of writing is important, the next question that comes to mind is: What should I write?
For me, answering that question is as simple as determining what is a) it that I am interested in; b) what am I currently reading (e.g. news, fiction, scripts, and etc.); c) ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I went to Kristin Nelson's blog, she is a literary agent out of Denver, CO. She links to Joelle Anthony's site where Anthony lists 25 Things to Avoid when Writing Y/A Novels. Her list compiles 25 things that (may) be overused in current Y/A literature and writing. I am not ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
I picked up a book on writing short stories a couple of years ago. On occasion, I go back to that book and read bits and pieces of it. My intent is not to write short fiction, but rather to write long fiction. My problem, whenever I start a short ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
I recently picked up a copy of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and read the whole thing. This was an entertaining book written by an author that goes by the name AVI. You can walk into almost any bookstore, go to the children's section, look under Independent Reader ages ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Some time ago I would look at a writing project and think, "In order to start this I have to write about the big picture, show the macro view of the world and then start zooming in." I don't know what that meant. During the transition from a young writer ...
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