research
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Research to compliment your story, not to be your story
So if you missed the news, I finished another first draft. Woo hoo! This one was a bit different than my previous projects because it was based on actual mythology and history. Research was necessary. Tons and tons of research. As far as this subject goes (and I don’t want to give away too much Read more
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Researching your Book: Is the internet enough?
Oh we have it so easy today, don’t we? Instead of spending hours in the reference section of the library, we have wikipedia and google. We can literally type any question we want into a search engine and get the most direct answer out there. If we need a book we can get it without Read more
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Writing Parents in Fiction: What you need to know to resonate with your readers
“There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.” – Stephen King I recently read a really great novel that had one jarring details I could not get over. A mother of a brand new baby was choosing to move out of a safe environment with her newborn to an extremely dangerous Read more
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