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I had one of those rare moments this morning where I realized how much I love my job. Actually, that’s not so rare. It’s just that it doesn’t often hit when I’m sitting down to do revisions.
I’d cleared off my desk of the last set of manuscript papers so I could spread the new ones [...]
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David B. Coe 
A Different kind of post this week:
For those of you who somehow missed it in the news this weekend, actor and activist Paul Newman died on Friday at the age of eighty-three. Newman has always been one of my favorite actors, and even knowing that he had [...]
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Once upon a time, just for the laugh of it, I wrote a story in which the main characters of all the works-in-progress in my writing group all went on strike. Some of the characters were demanding more “screen time”. One character insisted he should have a scene with two bikini-clad ladies in [...]
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Faith Hunter 
Catie couldn’t think of a thing to say and here I am posting a day early. But I have Internet access, and it may be gone by morning….Soooo….
David started me off on Monday thinking about how I build a [...]
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I have spent more or less the whole day trying to come up with a good solid writing topic to discuss on Magical Words today. Mostly what I’ve come up with is a backache, because I’ve also spent a significant chunk of time hunched over a laptop and a printer while I turned a 700+ [...]
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David B. Coe 
Today, I begin a two part discussion of character development. Tomorrow, I’ll post the second part at www.sfnovelists.com, and I hope that after you check in here at magicalwords to read Catie’s post, you’ll come over to sfnovelists and read part two of this discussion.
Whenever I’m on [...]