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Archive for the Writing Category

Conveying information

On October 2, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: how-to, technique
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Partial Endings

On September 25, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: endings, middles, mistakes
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Switching from Nonfiction to Fiction

On September 18, 2019   /   Writing  
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Site maintenance week

On September 11, 2019   /   Writing  
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Looking for solutions

On September 4, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: fixes, plot, problems, process
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Just Don’t

On August 28, 2019   /   Writing  
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Which Story, Which Hero

On August 21, 2019   /   Writing  
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Action Scenes, or, Some Ninjas Came in the Window

On August 14, 2019   /   Writing  
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One reason Characters are a pain

On August 7, 2019   /   Writing  
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Analysis vs. Intuition

On July 31, 2019   /   Writing  
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Recent Posts

  • Short to long: Fix-up novels
  • Questions, Assumptions, and Trusting Your Backbrain
  • Rearranging plot points
  • About the Story’s Setting
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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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