Last month I promised to talk to you about conflict and what it is. It seems really obvious. I mean, look it up in a dictionary and you’ll find: to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash, or as a noun: a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged [...]
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We talk a lot here at MagicalWords.Net about the rules of writing, when to adhere to the rules like iron filings to an electromagnet, and when to break those rules, when to do something different. Last week, I was deeply into my WIP. Which is still untitled, by the way, and is making me feel [...]
How to write book and story titles that [...]
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[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 [...]
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I’ve been working with some writers who have become friends. It’s really cool to have writers in my life: people who know the business and have been publishing books for years, people who are just getting into the professional side of the business, people who hope to get there some day. They all enrich my [...]
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I’ve worked with a number of writers over the years, and all have been desperately eager to get into print, and the younger they were, the more desperate they were. The very youngest believed they were ready—“right now, right this minute”—to be published. Hearing that they were not ready, or that their writing needed a [...]