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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | Today, we’re going to talk about developing characters. I decided on this for the most important reason of all — you wonderful readers put character development as the Number One area you wanted more information on. Isn’t that cool? You ask, you receive. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to assume you already have [...] A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...] I’m sitting in the waiting room at my mechanic’s, waiting to find out just what’s wrong with my car and how much it’ll cost me. Thing is — nobody knows anything just yet. Writing can be the same way. Sometimes things break down and nobody knows why. In all my years in this crazy business, I’ve [...] [Note: By this afternoon I'll be on a plane to the UK so I won't be able to respond to comments after noon Eastern. I'll do my best to jump back into the conversation later in the weekend.] Stephen King has said that most readers have a moment early in life when they throw a book [...] I was supposed to write an essay for the MW blog for today, but something strange happened. I found myself thinking back on things others have said recently, and things I’ve said recently, and for some reason every time I sat down at my computer to write an essay (mainly Friday), this story insisted on [...] I was writing a different post for today, but this week’s discussion about advice to young writers got me thinking . . . Jimi Hendrix. Eric Clapton. Eddie Van Halen. Stevie Ray Vaughan. All are famous rock guitar legends. And though they may not have started out knowing, they eventually learned how to read and understand [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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Stuart Jaffe
Faith Hunter
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