Writing
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Comma Crisis
Help! Suddenly, nothing looks right. I don’t know where to put the commas. Or should I sweep them away? In the middle of the proof-reading I was doing, I had a comma crisis.…
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Creating a lovable main character
What do you remember about the books that you’ve read? Long after you’ve finished reading, what do you remember most? Not the glorious prose, not the description of the landscape, not even the…
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How do you know when a novel is finished?
Every time I dig in to go any deeper than proof-reading i.e. than minor corrections, then my story seems to have a life of its own. Characters say things they haven’t said before,…
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