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Getting Past The Blank Page
We all know the feeling ... you sit down at your desk, a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger) in hand, and a fresh page in front...
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Sep 2, 20193 min read
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Conjuring Autobiographic Magic
By Erik Day The anthology is ready to take its next leap forward! The collection of stories has eight amazing authors, each of whom have...
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Dec 31, 20182 min read
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Writing a Christmas Calamity
By Erik Day Building an incident… One of the great Christmas movies is the original Die Hard. With Bruce Willis as New York cop John...
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Dec 22, 20182 min read
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A Story's Phenomenal Cosmic Power… in an Itty-Bitty Living Space
By Erik Day Whatever stage a story is in, from the germ of an idea to mid-Work In Progress, to a finished manuscript collecting...
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Oct 16, 20188 min read
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Plotting the plot (or, How to Write a Logline)
Last weekend we began the first of four exercises designed to help you think about National Novel Writing Month. Or, as we have come to...
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Oct 10, 20182 min read
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From The Archives
When you find a story in an old writers’ group notebook from 2003 and realize by the first line of it that it must have been a wacky...
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Jan 11, 20181 min read
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