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As much as the story itself, the characters of your tale will tell the tale. Who doesn’t appreciate the crafting of Charles Dicken’s Scrooge, Mario Puzo’s Don Corleone, or Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn? Surely, […]

If you have been wanting to write for many years, it may be that you have more than one story idea that you have given considerable thought to. So, how does one decide upon the novel to be written first, to select […]

Writer’s Block, or the inability to put words to paper, is spoken of so often within the writing community that there is almost a presumption that you must experience it to be a writer.  The symptoms of Writer’s […]

Now that you have decided to write your novel, you are on the brink of a great adventure…and challenge.  You are about to finally put pen to paper or, more likely, fingertips to keyboard.  You will create […]

Now that you have decided to write that long-considered novel, two very practical realizations–like great serpents rising from the depths–are beginning to emerge.  One of these is the simple realization that it […]

It has often occurred to me that certain assumptions are made about the typical evolution of a writer.   You know, that a writer, dirt poor, divorced, maybe with kids in tow, works through the night, relentlessly […]

It has been reported that some 80 percent of people want to write a book during their lifetimes, but that only two percent actually do.  I suspect there are many reasons why the aspirations of so many become […]