Monthly Archives: November 2009

As I’ve mentioned before, one of the areas in which I struggle is structure — specifically at the scene level. For a long time, I didn’t know how to determine whether a scene was advancing the plot or not. But …
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Change is happening. Slowly. Often with two steps forward, one step back. Sometimes two steps back. Much of New England allows for marriage equality, even though Maine then pulled a “Prop 8″ and voted it out. But the issue is …
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When it comes to writing a novel, there are “outliners” and there are “discovery writers”. “Outliners” create a detailed outline of scenes before beginning the first draft. “Discovery writers” prefer to work without an outline and may or may not …
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When I wrote the original draft of The Skinless Girl two years ago (it was during Nanowrimo and was titled A Sense of Community back then), I wrote it in third person limited. After letting it rest for a few …
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I just mailed off my short story Waffle Shoe Wake to The Georgia Review. It’s always an exciting thing to do. Lots of expectations and hopes, tempered with the reality that I face a lot of competition. There’s a part …
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