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Whack-A-Mole Plotting

On April 1, 2020   /   Writing  
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Making it Clear

On March 25, 2020   /   Writing  
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Apologies

On March 19, 2020   /   Uncategorized  
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Scene Choreography

On March 11, 2020   /   Writing  
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Making Art

On March 4, 2020   /   Writing  
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So…Art.

On February 26, 2020   /   Writing  
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Technically Right, Artistically Wrong

On February 19, 2020   /   Writing  
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Walk-ons with Character

On February 12, 2020   /   Writing  
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Uncooperative Characters

On February 5, 2020   /   Writing  
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Why They Fail the First Time

On January 29, 2020   /   Writing  
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Recent Posts

  • Short to Long: One story, two ways
  • Actually, It’s An Open Mic
  • Short to long: Fix-up novels
  • Questions, Assumptions, and Trusting Your Backbrain
  • Rearranging plot points

Books

  • ThirteenthChild
    Thirteenth Child
    Book One covers Eff’s childhood, from the age of five (when her parents...
  • GreatBarrier
    Across the Great Barrier
    Eff is back in Mill City, while her powerful twin Lan and her...
  • FarWest
    The Far West
    The discoveries that Eff and her friends made out in settlement territory didn’t...

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