Tag Archives: fiction

Fuel for Writing: Stealing the Hat.

Most writers have heard the old formula when it comes to fiction. Put your character up a tree, throw a bunch of rocks at him, and then get him out of the tree. How succinct and clever. And void of creativity. All right, I know I am not being totally fair. The message behind this metaphor is …

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How Sprout Gets It Right, and How Writers Can Too.

I don’t watch Sprout much. (Surprise.) Until this weekend it was just something I would pass through while channel surfing, stopping on it for a minute or two on occasion due to the oddness of the visual. Yet my sister and her daughter (my niece, of course) spent this weekend here. My niece is nine months old …

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Reverb11: Author, Author.

Share with us the title and inside jacket cover of the book you would most like to write. Now that I have the prompt done correctly, (I didn’t before,) I am still faced with a difficult task. Asking a writer what book he would most like to write is probably a bit like asking a …

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Reverb11: Beauty

Describe of moment of beauty that you witnessed this year. It concerned me at first that I could not name a moment of beauty from this year. I wondered what that may say about me, in a way that being unsure about the moment of joy also made me stop and wonder what I may be lacking …

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