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Show Don’t Tell: an Excuse to Stare and Eavesdrop
Watch people to improve your Show Don't Tell ability. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Your creative writing teacher said, “Show Don’t Tell.” All the advice you’ve read on honing your fiction repeated,...
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Cliche: Plagiarism out on Parole?
Writers create. We struggle to dream what hasn’t yet been dreamed; to fashion something with our brains that is strange and wonderful and utterly fantastic to the senses. It must have never before...
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Your Short Story: Getting There or Getting Where?
Before you start writing your short story, ask yourself, “How does it end?” Sound strange? Imagine this: You gather your belongings, lock the house, get in the car, start the engine, and…tap the...
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Creative Writing, Made by Hand
While in the midst of your creative writing, you might find that you’re feeling a little less than ingenious. The screen is blank…or riddled with repetitive, stale concepts. You’re beginning to find...
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Naked Public Recycling Cures Bone Valley Hauntings
Ghost writing doesn’t haunt its ghost writer. Once a project is finished, it’s sent off with its new owner and the ghost writer can free his or her spirit from the piece. There are no remnants, no...
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Trust your Readers
As happens every six hours, AM talk radio had begun to depress my mood. There was nothing on FM to sing along with. The silence was too much to bear, considering I’d been alone all day. A small voice...
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