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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 [...]
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I have posted here before about worldbuilding, and no doubt I will again. Only a month or so ago, Benjamin Tate gave us an excellent guest post on the subject. But I have been thinking about worldbuilding in a new way since beginning work on the Thieftaker books, which are my first set in a [...]
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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 [...]
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My subject this week is paragraph and sentence structure. I know, you suddenly have visions of your 5th grade teacher, who looked a lot like Marge Simpson but without the cool style and hip clothes. The smell of chalk or water-based-board markers (pick your toxins: one has particulates that get in your lungs, one kills [...]
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The results of our first Magical Words poll indicated that many of you are interested in posts about (among other things) character development and plotting. So I thought that today I would take on plotting, at least in a general way. I have no doubt that my MW colleagues will have much to add, either [...]
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