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Writing Without Writing (plus two lessons)
The first lesson: Any moment can be a writing session. Continue reading
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The Dragons My Characters Fight (but don’t necessarily slay)
My villains look less and less like villains, and my heroes less and less like heroes. They are just people, put between a rock and a hard place, panicking, scrambling, doing the best they can, and often that best is not very good. Continue reading
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