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Kill Your Darlings
Sometimes you write a line so beautiful, so fantastic, so enlightening, that you feel you must share it with the world. So you squint and you furrow and you find a way to shimmy the line into a story you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Posts by Jaclyn
Tagged Fiction, kill your darlings, kurt vonnegut, Reading, stephen king, story, william faulkner, write, writing
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Writing Beyond Disruption
We moved today. The English Dept. swapped buildings and moved into a new, shiny, creativity-inducing workspace. I’ve already done a post on where we work and how we work, but what about disruptions in our lives and writing … Continue reading
Can Facebook, Twitter, and Blogging Make You a Better Writer?
First, check out the latest social networking stats: Facebook: 901 million monthly users of Facebook as of March 2012 (http://newsroom.fb.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreaId=22) Twitter: 175 million Twitter user accounts as of March 31, 2011 (http://tinyurl.com/7cuh9d8) WordPress: over 73 million sites (not necessarily users) … Continue reading
Posted in Posts by Catherine
Tagged blog, Catherine, facebook, Fiction, Internet, nonfiction, poetry
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What?! I have to do research?
Yes. Even when writing fiction, you need to do research. Does this come as a surprise? As the writer, you are the boss of everything, right? That’s true, but only to an extent. At some point, the reader, who has … Continue reading
Second Person POV: What The Heck Is It?
When it comes to choosing a point-of-view for a fiction story, most people show a preference for either first person or third person. First person point-of-view is when the narrator tells the story and is a character in a story. … Continue reading
