Tag: craft
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NaNoWriMo…
I’m back. I haven’t written on this blog for over 8 weeks. It’s obviously easier for me to write about the craft of writing, than of my own exploits in writing. Why is that?
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The Writer and The Temple
—Green my life and remove my sorrows. The picture is stunning. But it was the words underneath that caught my attention.The relationship between global warming and fiction writing may not present as clear.
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Picture and Story
The face is an organic mask. It can’t hold falsehood forever. Eventually there is an unguarded moment when the muscles relax. And you see the true face of the person.” –Lisa Book, sister of Isabel Raine in Die for Me, by Lisa Unger Isabel Raine, the protagonist in Unger’s latest suspense thriller, Die for You,…
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Magic and Craft
Author of literary thrillers,” Lisa Unger, was my guest on Saturday’s broadcast (September 26, 2009) of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters. “Die for You,” her latest release, and the other books she has penned (8 total), were among the many things we discussed, along with working to find balance between her work as a…
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Questions
Every novel seeks to answer a question. The question could arise from the premise, What if______meets_____, to which the plot of your story delivers the answer in showing what ensues when X meets Y. On another level your novel could raise a question that plumbs the depths of human personality and consciousness. Why is it…
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Writing and Cyberspace
As the economy languishes in limbo and many of us wonder what comes next, I have made several observations as an author, one of which is that the Internet has become an important meeting ground for both industry and consumers. That I am an author makes me part of the publishing industry. The Internet offers…