Category: Change
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The Pleasure of E-readers
E-readers have been around since 2004, when Sony introduced theSony Reader. That was followed in 2007 by the Kindle, released by Amazon, and then in 2009 by the Nook, released by Barnes and Noble. I have been around a lot longer than that, and since I started reading books at the age of five, I…
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The F Words: Circular Ending
Generally a work of fiction has one of two kinds of endings: circular or linear. You can think of a circular ending as one in which the hero returns home: back to where he started from. You can think of a linear ending as one in which the story conflicts come to a climax and…
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The F Words: Thinking of F Words
In an earlier blog, The F Words: A Writing Coach, I mentioned that Esther Hershenhorn (the writing coach!) gave me a list of six “threads” to follow throughout my novel, making certain that I didn’t drop any of those threads for too long. One of those six threads was “Cole thinking about F words.” As…
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The F Words: Poetry and the Middle
In my previous blog I mentioned that in writing The F Words based on the advice in Write Your Novel from the Middle, by James Scott Bell, I reaped not only the benefit of writing a book more easily and more quickly, but also the benefit of improving one of my thematic elements precisely because…