Writing Pitfall: Cool Solution Looking for a Problem
For the “Cool Solution looking for a Problem” to work, the experts in your story need to be smarter than your target audience
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You Can’t Tell Which of Your Stories Will Be Popular
I’ve written perhaps thirty short stories, at least as many dribbles (100-word stories), three full-length novels (in excess of 100,000
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Why I Haven’t Left Facebook (Yet)
Like many of you, I’m not thrilled with Facebook. They’ve taken too much information, too much control, and not shown enough restraint. I’ve read about the ways that Facebook radicalizes QAnon followers, supports racist groups and generally does not act like a good local or global citizen.
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Nurturing the spark (or not)
There are teachers and then there are teachers. Never the twain shall meet.
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My First NaNoWriMo
I’ve never done NaNoWriMo (and don’t want to have to type that name a lot – too many caps!). I’ve
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Walking away from a sale
The hardest thing for a new writer to do is to walk away from a sale. I should know, I just did it.
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Music as a weapon – too silly an idea?
I’m at a bit of a crossroads with the novel I’m writing (hereafter referred to as WiP – short for
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The Fallacy of Comparing Modern Writers to the Golden Age of Sci Fi
There?s a conversation going on in my writer?s group about science fiction that I wanted to pull out and discuss
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Songs as Sources of Inspiration
I guess every point of refuge has its price – The Eagles, Lyin? Eyes. Song lyrics – go
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Writers I’ve Known and Their Books
William Kamkwamba is probably the best selling author I’ve known. He was a student at African Leadership Academy back when