Lucy Jane Bledsoe, in our soon-to-be-released video interview, talks about how in fiction, people are stressed by something. Often, in America at least, we turn to violence for this stress. In her engaging new novel, The Big-Bang Symphony, Bledsoe uses, among other things, the harsh and beautiful setting–Antarctica–to stress her characters. This comment inspired me […]
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An interview with author Kate Moses. Kate shares writing tips from Sylvia Plath, secrets of childhood and baking and how she came to write her new memoir, Cakewalk.
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One course the Book Writing World offers members is “Trading Trade Secrets.” Here, we peer at sharp passages of writing to tease apart the techniques that make great prose sing. I’ve already covered openings, dialog, voice and point of view, character in conflict, symbol, desire and escalation and the crisis choice. Each month, when the
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Beginning writers are hungry for advice. Oh, let’s face it: we all are. We want guidance, help, a clue . . . For a while at birthday parties, my friends and I would play the Advice Game. At first, in the Advice Game, each person who was older than the birthday girl would give her
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