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- Nasty Little Birds, a Little Madness, and Perpetual Astonishment. Oh yeah, Spring
- Making a list can be lazy writing unless you are going grocery shopping
- Saying things twice and being redundant: Cut it out!
- What writing love scenes can teach you about writing ordinary advance-the-plot scenes
- How writing fiction exposes the writer
- When times get tough, the tough get…writing
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- When Thanksgiving-the-holiday was new and writers were inspired by it…
- If you can cut it, you probably don’t need it: meaningless phrases
- Short sentences can open the door to the imagination; they can also close it
- Five parts terror, three parts horror with a dash of repulsion….
- How to How-to: Know Your Reader
- The Staying Power of Books
- Dear reader, the most verstile straight man ev-er
- How much would? We would chuck.
- Getting the novel you are writing from A to B
- Long Sentences: popular with writers, with readers, not so much
- Telling the reader what happens next can build suspense. Really.
- When you are reminded (and reminded) the book is fiction but can’t help believing it is fact: metafiction meets realism
- The real, historical guy behind a fictional bit part
- Writing a novel that changes the world: the vision(s) thing
- The vernacular of fiction – and we thought we were being creative!
- The Future of Publishing: Bleak or Rosy?
- Book length: how long is too long?
- The baggage of writing; can’t we just do it for fun?
- Setting the scene in a novel: you have to do it again and again and again
- Good Reasons to Listen to Your Writing
- THE PERFECT STORM, INTO THIN AIR, THE WORST HARD TIME: What makes some non-fiction so suspenseful?
- Writing Spaces: A room with a view – or not
- Fictional Real Estate: location, location, and yes, location
- The tyranny of book proposals: some guesses about where they came from but no excuses…
- What makes a good memoir? Does your life qualify?
- Book blooper: the impossible narrator
- Are you telling a story or trying to show the reader how smart you are?
- PowerPoint Fiction
- It takes more than imagination to come up with the good stuff
- Being more fully present by being absent: a lesson from a poet
- Advice from the experts: writers on writing
- Writing nice when niceness isn’t cool
- Spring cleaning: cobwebs and clutter to eliminate from your manuscript.
- If you are going to kill off characters, have the decency to mark their passing.
- Maintaining interest while you interrupt yourself: making flashbacks work
- Characters we don’t love to hate
- Good brother; not-so-good brother: thinking about literary themes
- Going to write a novel? Watch this video first!
- Writing formula: 0% inspiration, 100% concentration
- Writers who don’t trust their readers are unlikely to have any.
- Readers are yahoos. Yes, that means you and gulp, us too.
- In honor of the new season of Dexter…endorsing the serial comma.
- Watch out! Serial commas, errant colons, and slipped ellipses are on the loose; it is National Punctuation Day…
- In singing, the head voice and the chest voice. In writing too?
- The Franzen hype: good for American writers
- Eat, pray, (think) write…
- Shakespeare and an Inspiration for Writing
- "I would of done that."
- Great Expectations – The Comic Book?
- Writing Well: Not just for Novels
- “Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man.”
- Where do the words come from?
- The danger (and joy) of politics in the novel
- The Trouble with Knocking off Jane
- Is blogging writing or avoiding writing?
- Got the bourbon for my sore back, switching into first person: #amwriting
- Unrealized expectations – when the novel flops
- What the dragon tattoo says about the girl
- Keeping the characters straight when writing from multiple viewpoints
- The Novel as Video Game
- The College Intern's take on Procrastination
- The Generation Y Writing Style
- Writing is not what happens in the moment
- The Estival Calefaction is Getting to Us – Time to Put the Thesaurus Away!
- Building suspense, what Facebook can teach us
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- Writing your how-to book; it is not about you.
- The importance of words from a man who is losing them
- The interrobang. You cannot be serious?!
- Exclamation Marks: One is always enough and even then…
- A monologue that doesn’t drone on – too much
- Robert Frost and Writing Places
- You don’t have to rewrite with a toothbrush
- Scare Quotes: Aghhhhhhhhh!
- Dexter and the point of view problem
- Details, Details – Don’t skip them
- Writing without a net
- There is nothing short about writing a short story
- The ultimate judge – you
- Writing a memoir is tantamount to writing a work of fiction these days.
- Formatting is not Writing
- The manipulative narrator, is it okay to deliberately mislead readers?
- Falling for an unlikely Protagonist
- Point of View – Mixing it Up
- Omniscient Point of View: It is hard being God-like
- He, she, it and they: third persons
- The Strange You –More of a Cautionary Tale
- Me, Me, Me – the I Voice
- The View From Here
- The Search for Writing Voice can Yield Many Voices
- Whose Voice is This?
- Book Dialogue is NOT Talk
- Writing for Immortality – or Not
- Showing Versus Telling, the Horror of it
- Book Characters are People Too
- What The Ghost Writer says about Ghostwriting
- Novel Characters Should Not Know Anything – Ever
- Skipping out on the Ending – Don’t
- Show…and Tell
- Showing, Instead of Telling
- A Novel within a Series of Stories
- The Economy of Dickens
- Exclusivity versus Multiple Submissions
- A Query Letter Should be a Tease
- Why We Love Writers
- You Loved the Book, Do You Want to Know the Author?
- Salinger on Reading to Write
- The Power of a Pronoun
- Words, Words, Words
- At Publishing Houses, Editors are Dinosaurs
- The Kindest Cuts