Month: February 2014
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Perseverance: The Neverending Battle
There is one word that appears in almost all craft books on writing – and especially on making a business and life with your writing: Perseverance. I have come to both love and loathe the word. And all that it means. Especially that as the years (yes, years) pass, it comes to take on deeper…
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Can Fictional Antagonistic Forces Ever Be “TOO” Bad?
I watched a movie over the weekend which led to my question: can you ever have a situation where antagonist forces are too much for the protagonist(s) to overcome? This movie made me think yes. I don’t want to spoil your experience, so I don’t want to tell you which movie it was – and…
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Learn Something New: Pastiche Genre
So today I learned something new. And frankly, I haven’t been learning as much as I should. I blame winter, ’cause at this point, winter better get the blame for lots of stuff (like being winter). Anyway, today I met an author via Twitter who writes in the Pastiche Genre … which I had to…
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First Love and the First Pages
Since I write romance, guess it’s not much surprise that I have love on the brain. But I was thinking today, especially as I look back at an older work, about the flush of first love we feel in the early pages of a new book. I’m in love with my new story. Probably partially…