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member name: Pat Bertram
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June 13, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
I need to come up with a blurb for my novel Light Bringer , which will be published at the beginning of November. (assuming I can finish the dreaded final edits and de-wasing in time. I keep putting . . .
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October 23, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
In all the books on writing I've read, they talk about developing a syle, but then recently I came across the remark that "Style Happens." If style is simply the way you write, but . . .
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August 26, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
I finally finished the edits of Light Bringer and sent the manuscript to my publisher. I also sent Daughter Am I to Second Wind’s new editor for a final proofing. I don’t want to end . . .
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September 03, 2009 12:07 AM EDT --
I've been doing so much research about promotion and spending so much time on the internet checking out sites and making thousands of dubious (and a few wonderful) connections, that I'm starting . . .
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October 29, 2008 03:27 PM EDT --
I recently came across Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction and thought they were worth discussing. His advice
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the . . .
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November 05, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
A novel is a writer's contract with readers. The author promises to keep readers interested, to not waste their time, to play fair. The reader promises nothing, except perhaps to read the . . .
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April 22, 2009 09:42 PM EDT --
In The Career Novelist , agent Donald Maass wrote: "To the extent that fiction validates our cherished ideals, it will sell. To the extent that it condemns us as a people, holding up the ugly mirror . . .
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June 11, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
I'm sure it won't come as any surprise to those of you who follow my blog and my comments, but I am at a crossroads in my life. I've spent most of the past eight years learning to write, writing my four . . .
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September 09, 2009 09:14 PM EDT --
I’ve been thinking about themes lately -- the themes of our lives, the themes of our stories, the themes that permeate our relationships. (Technically, relationships fall under the category of the . . .
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December 09, 2008 01:02 PM EST --
Elmore Leonard is hosting our discussion. He doesn't know it, of course, but we had so much fun with Kurt Vonnegut's Eight Rules, I thought we'd use Leonard's rules this time and have . . .
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August 13, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
Novels generally have a three-part structure: beginnings, middles, and ends.
Beginnings connect the reader to the main character, present the story world, establish tone, introduce the opposition, and . . .
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June 17, 2008 12:24 AM EDT --
One of the questions posed in a non-wombat writing discussion a couple of weeks ago was: " Your book, your story, your script -- whatever you write -- that's your way of challenging . . .
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July 09, 2008 07:16 PM EDT --
Color is an important part of life, and we should honor that importance in the stories we write. Although we can simply name any color for our characters' bedrooms or the clothes they wear, by choosing . . .
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