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Write a Story with Me # 65 – Danielle Ackley McPhail – “Glamour”
Write a Story with Me is a group endeavor just for the fun of it. A different writer adds a new 250 words each week. It is the ultimate Flash Fiction Challenge! If you’d like to sign up, come on over. There’s always room for more! Here’s this week’s excerpt. We hope you enjoy! Part… Read more
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A lesson in making your villain sympathetic
This is partly a review of the movie “The Great and Powerful Oz” which was ten times better than I ever dreamed it would be. Lots of fun, lots of action, and lots of wonderfully developed characters. This story stepped up to the plate and took on the daunting job of being a sequel to… Read more
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Cut it out with those full sentances! — Rule #23 of 32 Simple Rules to the Writing the Best Novel Ever
I’m dissecting the article Hunting Down the Pleonasm, by Allen Guthrie, using it as a cattle prod to search for little nasties in my manuscript. Yep, you can join in the fun, too. Let’s take a looksee at topic #23 23: Don’t allow your fictional characters to speak in sentences. Unless you want them to sound… Read more
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Write a Story with Me #64 – Richard Leonard “Compromise”
Write a Story with Me is a group endeavor just for the fun of it. A different writer adds a new 250 words each week. It is the ultimate Flash Fiction Challenge! If you’d like to sign up, come on over. There’s always room for more! Here’s this week’s excerpt. We hope you enjoy! Part… Read more
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The long and short of it – Your sentences, that is — Rule #22 of 32 Simple Rules to the Writing the Best Novel Ever
I’m dissecting the article Hunting Down the Pleonasm, by Allen Guthrie, using it as a cattle prod to search for little nasties in my manuscript. Yep, you can join in the fun, too. Let’s take a looksee at topic #22 22: Vary your sentence lengths. I tend to write short, and it’s amazing what a difference… Read more
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