Tag: writing
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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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The Writer/Mother
“I’m a better writer and certainly a better person because I am a mother,” says author, Lisa Unger. “My best times for writing and creativity are between 5 am to noon. Afternoons are devoted to my daughter when she returns home from school.” The role of mother and writer is a taxing one for those…
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The Business of Writing
“It’s way harder to establish a career as a working writer than to get published by a traditional New York publishing house.” —Lisa Unger on the Business of Writing Whether the author achieves publication of their work through traditional means, or chooses to self-publish, she or he must play an active role in the promoting,…
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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…
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Loving Our Characters
American Buddhist nun, Pema Chödrön, writes in “Comfortable with Uncertainty” that, “…When we start to meditate or work with any kind of spiritual discipline, we often think that somehow we’re going to improve [ourselves], which is a subtle kind of aggression against who we are…Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become…