Four Tips to Fix Story Pacing
If you’ve ever got bored with a book, it was probably an issue with the pacing. How do you know what’s the right pace for your story?
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Free Speech, but Who’s Listening?
It’s March 14. This is the one month anniversary of yet another school shooting in the United States. (It’s also Pi Day.) And a multitude of people exercised their freedom of speech in cities large and small across the country. Free speech is important. It gives voice to every marginalized and under-served group. In this …
Deep Thinking at the Writer’s Retreat
My Muse is extroverted in every imagined scenario. My actual body and mind are introverted enough to happily stay home every weekend reading a book. While Musie celebrated the idea of the Deep Thinker’s Writing Retreat, my mind shriveled into the fetal position and begged to visit a library instead. Preferably the one on my …
Whose story is it anyway?
In a non-parody of a comedic television show, let’s take a moment to investigate the ownership of a published work. Recently, this author has been pondering this oft-debated issue, and I’ve come up with four possibilities. One of the co-authors in the romance anthology Accidental Valentine posted on the topic July 16, 2015. Her points …