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Carnival of Storytelling #9
Welcome to the Carnival of Storytelling! Thanks to everyone who submitted articles. Please show your support by checking out other articles on these blogs. If […]
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Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints)
70 Days of Sweat, Round 3 begins tomorrow. I will not be participating. Just as I participate in neither NaNoWriMo nor NaNoEdMo. Why not? What […]
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Carnival of Storytelling #8
Welcome to the Carnival of Storytelling! Thanks to everyone who submitted articles. Please show your support by checking out other articles on these blogs. If […]
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Discovering Character Secrets from Your Relatives!
Much of the time, we treat relatives as obligations: “Yeah, but what can you do? He’s family.” This year, during the holiday break between December […]
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The Most Important Story Element
In the beginning, I was a software developer, not a writer. And if you’ve read any open-source documentation, you know how badly software developers write. […]
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3 Steps To Writing Winning Fiction Characters
(Originally posted on EZineArticles.com.) Character is the single most important aspect of a story, because if you have compelling characters, you can get away with […]
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Happy Thanksgiving Wishes
I want to wish everyone in the U.S. a happy Thanksgiving. I myself will be spending the day with family. And I hope that wherever […]
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A Writers’ Rant by Harlan Ellison
Thanks to C. E. Dorsett for putting me onto this YouTube video, a rant about how professional writers deserve to be paid. Hee! I so […]
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The Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan Drinking Game
Another TV Dr. drinking game, to add to the Dr. House Drinking Game, and hopefully the second of a long series. I borrowed the Bones […]
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March of the Penguins… Again
The Discovery Channel has been advertising the “Oscar winning” film The March of the Penguins. The documentary has also won numerous other awards… Proof, by […]
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