Tag: Writing for Story
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Planning for Editing: The Author vs. the Novice Writer
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward re-writing. The writer, professional or not, looks forward to the opportunity of excising words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters that do not work and improving those that do. Many a would-be writer thinks whatever he puts down on paper is by that act…
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The Map is Not the Terrain-Jon Franklin and His Outline
With the last of t he edits underway on my new publication, The House, due for release in Fall 2009, I’ve found myself pondering my next story. A novel, the idea came to me sometime last week. I now realize it popped into my head after overhearing a conversation wherein a middle-aged woman in speaking…