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Category: Writing
Love Your Local booksellers Year Round
Don’t wait 364 days to support indie book stores. Don’t know why you need to support them? Here are 17 reasons, plus 8 non-book-buying ways to support them.
Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Being Creative
Creative products are undervalued by customers and creators. This writer takes a look at the numerous invisible costs and decides creativity is worth the cost.
Develop a Page-Turning Plot with Character-First, Part II
Part two discusses the need for careful consideration of story stakes, overall pacing, and why words matter with examples of how word choices affect pace.
You Can Develop a Page-Turning Plot with Character First
Part one of two, discusses the Russian nesting dolls method of developing a story, including examples of how both pantsers and planners can use this method.