Some weeks I get so many great links to interesting articles that I feel it’s a real shame if I don’t share them. I think one of our writing routines needs to be to putting writing first, ahead of reading about the industry or Tweeting or keeping up with Facebook. But it’s good to do [...]

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          Stephanie dropped the ball today. This past week has been full of activity, decisions and emotional milestones. In the midst of all that, this blog didn’t get written. Stephanie apologizes (profusely) and promises she will be back next week.

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How do we make our readers care about our main characters? I routinely come back to this question because it’s one aspect of story writing that I struggle with. (And because the feedback I received this week suggested my main character could use a boost in the personality department *read: much work ahead for Shonna*.) [...]

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