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Book Review: The Ruby Key by Holly Lisle
A couple weeks ago, the Little One and I finished The Ruby Key, a youth fantasy novel by Holly Lisle. As you can see, we […]
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Literary Rambles: An Interview with Writer-Blogger Casey Mccormick
I was touched by this short interview with Casey Mccormick, the author of Literary Rambles, a blog about writing YA fiction. The interview went up […]
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Online Story Tuesday: Ilker Drennan
Formerly “Online Fiction Tuesday,” I considered renaming it “Online Fiction (and Truth!) Tuesday” so that I could include true stories, too. But since that’s so […]
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Interview with Humorist Kevin Cummings
I have the pleasure of welcoming humorist Kevin Cummings to BeTheStory.com today. Hello. As you can see, what I’ve written is in italics, and what […]
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Online Fiction Tuesday #2
I did one of these a long, long time ago. Now that I’ve been trying to post more, in general, on a number of my […]
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Just Write Blog Carnival
Quick note: The Just Write Blog Carnival is up, which features one of my posts, as well as 9 other posts about books, writing, and […]
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Writing Your Characters Using the APET Model
Some of the most profound fiction-writing insights come from psychology, because the characters in fiction are whom you sympathize with, pulling you into the story […]
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7 Things I Wish I Knew before Writing My First Book
This appears to be turning into a blog-meme of sorts. No one has (to my knowledge) tagged anyone else, but the topic does seem to […]
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5 Tips on Telling Backstory without Interrupting the Flow
A long time ago, in a post far away, Sara, a reader of this blog (at least back then she was; I don’t know whether […]
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