Month: March 2017
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My new Free 3-Day Fiction-Writing Workshop just went live
This free workshop focuses on three things: Helping you build ideas — LOTS of them — that are right for your stories (instead of waiting around for ideas to come to you) Helping you create the right characters for your stories (instead of using random walk-ons who then drag your story in directions you didn’t…
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Do I have to go to college to be a writer?
There are apparently 7000 different ways to ask this question, and since I have only answered a couple hundred of them in the past two weeks, I’m trying to get ahead of the curve here. The answer is no. Not just no, but HELL, no! No, you don’t have to go to college if you…
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Yes, It’s Revision… But Is It DELICIOUS?
Like other folks, lots of writers have pets. And while it had been a whole lot of years since I had pets, for Christmas my guys got me a cat. Sheldon. Very cool cat. Likes to help. Really likes to help with revision, which is generally not an area where I welcome help. Here. Let…
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Oops — a brief tale of Social Media fail
So I’m working on the TalysMana revision. And because of the way I did the first draft of that story, I was looking for someone online. By name. Had the WHOLE name. And the one place that name came up was in Linkedin. Okay, I thought. I have a Linkedin account. I don’t use the…
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Me, faith, God… and the good and kind folks who like me…
I received today a truly wonderful email from a very kind woman with whom I had previously corresponded. In it she talked about this being the year of Christian/Jewish Restoration, and about how we were both due, and about how “I know you don’t like God all that much…” And she included a video to…