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Alice’s feet drag to the mailbox. She had waited until the mailman travelled a few houses beyond theirs. She…
November 23, 2022Alice’s feet drag to the mailbox. She had waited until the mailman travelled a few houses beyond theirs. She…
November 23, 2022This month I want to continue talking about the importance of pacing and screenwriting. I want to emphasize that…
November 4, 2022Most folks are very familiar with big yellow buses boasting black-stenciled letters: SCHOOL BUS We can’t miss them. We’re…
May 20, 2022As I mentioned in the previous post, there is much we can learn on the writing craft by studying…
July 9, 2020Once upon a time writers actually left their characters hanging from cliffs. In the early days of movies, when…
August 31, 2018Most fiction starts out hot, then bogs down. How can you keep the fire in your fiction so that…
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