Tag: behind the scenes
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Writing with the Black Warrior
While I’m not a complete Luddite, I don’t usually write on a computer. There are times when a fleeting bit dialogue or description is looping through your mind, wrenching your emotions, and you need to get those ideas down on paper fast. Before they’re gone. And that’s where pencils come in. In a pinch, anything…
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Getting Things Done
Most of the writers I know feel completely swamped. Between marketing, networking and a hundred other demands on your schedule (not to mention trying to actually live your life), there’s not a lot of time left to actually write. And it seems that the more ambitious we are, the more things we want to get…
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Somebody asked me recently to recommend a good book about writing fiction. I stopped for a moment and realized that most of the writing books on my shelves are actually aimed at screenwriters, not novelists. Why is that? I love watching movies, sure, but I have no interest in writing one. (Although I did work…
LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON 