Radio Show | Author, Joyce Faulkner
Author, Joyce Faulkner, discusses her novel, In the Shadow of Suribachi and her collection of short stories, Losing Patience. So tune in.
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Inhabiting Your Character: Journeying to the Ends of the Earth
Crafting a novel requires a major character with whom the author is willing to spend at least the next year. Much of the time spent with that character requires inhabiting her or his skin, living inside their situation that we have created. As writers we expend a significant part of the energy of our imagination
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Brainstorming
Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?
Radio Show | Author, Michelle McGriff: Last Breath
Author, Michelle McGriff discusses the psychological edge of her latest novel, Last Breath, that of looking for one’s own killer and then finding him. So tune in. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/anjuellefloyd/2009/05/23/Author-Michelle-McGriff-discusses-her-recent-publication-Last-Breath www.michellemcgriff.com
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Thrity Umrigar and the Timeless Tapestries of Her Stories
I discovered Thrity Umrigar last year when I read “The Space Between Us“. It’s a wonderful novel about what the title states, the space between us, us being a well-educated Parsi mother and widow Sera Dubash, and her poor, illiterate housekeeper, Bhima.
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Planning Your Novel: My Notebook
I have a notebook for every novel I write. I make notes on short stories I write, but novels deserve an entire notebook. My novels, as with all stories I write, begin in my head. Since earning my MFA I give much thought to my novels before I write, sometimes as much 3 years or
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Character Drives Plot: How?
We’ve all heard as writers that character feeds, or drives plot. But how often does someone show us how this occurs? As a psychotherapist, wife and mother of 3 along with being an author I’ve given a lot of thought to this. Also my stories a heavily character driven. I think an awful lot about
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