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Writers Are the Best People Ever
Really and truly, writers are the most wonderful people. They are bold, courageous, interesting, curious, sensitive and caring. And I love hanging out with them! Tuesday night’s Making a Scene Zoom...
Writers Are the Best People Ever
Really and truly, writers are the most wonderful people. They are bold, courageous, interesting, curious, sensitive and caring. And I love hanging out with them! Tuesday night’s Making a Scene Zoom...
Lawdy, am almost sick of scenes!
I am almost sick of scenes. I have been peeling them back, stripping them down, working at what actually makes them tick. I’m seeing scenes everywhere! I’m sleeping with scenes....
Lawdy, am almost sick of scenes!
I am almost sick of scenes. I have been peeling them back, stripping them down, working at what actually makes them tick. I’m seeing scenes everywhere! I’m sleeping with scenes....
The Scene You Forgot to Write
Fabulously, I’m seeing manuscripts with strong stories, great characters and the potential for wonderful emotion, yet they are missing scenes. What? Missing a scene? What on earth do you mean?...
The Scene You Forgot to Write
Fabulously, I’m seeing manuscripts with strong stories, great characters and the potential for wonderful emotion, yet they are missing scenes. What? Missing a scene? What on earth do you mean?...
A Very Unromantic Conversation About Writing
Let’s be serious for a minute. Because writing is a serious business. Especially if you want to make money. Let’s talk about that. Money! And how to make some as a writer....
A Very Unromantic Conversation About Writing
Let’s be serious for a minute. Because writing is a serious business. Especially if you want to make money. Let’s talk about that. Money! And how to make some as a writer....
What Are You Trying to Show?
Do you get stuck trying to show what you want to say? You can feel in your bones something bursting to be expressed and shown through your characters. You might even be...
What Are You Trying to Show?
Do you get stuck trying to show what you want to say? You can feel in your bones something bursting to be expressed and shown through your characters. You might even be...
Scene and Heard
This photograph was taken in Pratovecchio Stia, in Casentino, Tuscany. At first glance, it looks deceptively simple. A row of men. Chairs lined up against the wall. The bar doors open,...
Scene and Heard
This photograph was taken in Pratovecchio Stia, in Casentino, Tuscany. At first glance, it looks deceptively simple. A row of men. Chairs lined up against the wall. The bar doors open,...
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