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SCENE 24: Stories that Spaghetti

30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Stories that Lose Focus In Writing for Story, Jon Franklin says that, “As length grows linearly, complexity expands expotentially.” It’s easy to write a scene; to write a novel is hard. When someone writes without planning ahead, the danger is [...]

book trailer criteria

Memoir of a Successful Book Trailer in Six Words by guest Lisa Gottfried of DigitalWeavers.com NOTE: Lisa did the editing for my retreat video. She spoke at the San Rafael conference and I was interested enough to try her services, for which I paid. This is an invited guest post and she speaks here as [...]

current stories

Stories You Might Find Interesting Janni talks about her revision process. I’m featured on the Cuppa Jolie Blog in conjunction with the Summer Revision Smackdown. Have you heard this? Dave Eggers has taken Maurice Sendak’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are and has written a 300+ page novel! It went from 324 words to 324 [...]

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