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Should you outline your project?
The short answer is yes. But I understand your hesitation. For years I resisted outlining, preferring my stories evolve organically. And this worked for me… kinda. Really interesting twists would show up, characters were able to define themselves on the pages and I wasn’t trying to force anything to conform to a preconceived idea. But Read more
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online writing workshop and what it has done for me
I was asked recently to contribute what my favorite online review site has meant to me and I thought it would be helpful to share it here as well. I discovered the online writing workshop for science fiction, fantasy and horror (OWW) on the website of one of my favorite authors, Cecilia Dart-Thorton as a 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
LC W. Allingham 