Ten years ago today, on the 40th anniversary of Sandra Day O'Connor taking her seat as the 1st female Justice of the Supreme Court, I published my first opinion …
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Writers Links The Single Best Piece of Advice I've Gotten as a Writer Great Sources for Writers: Poets & Writers Magazine The Nebraska Center for …
Paddling your Bathtub into London: How Great Stories End
I am working through plotting issues myself and returned to these notes from a master class I taught on narrative endings a couple years ago. They are just my …
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No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends
No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends Like many now, I'm social distancing. The good news for me is that a writer in these circumstances can …
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A new book by Madeleine l’Engle: Stories found in her “Tower”
The two books that made me dream of becoming a writer were Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. So the news I read this …
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On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
It’s a rainy evening in Paris, just minutes before the hour, 75 years ago, that D-Day began. At midnight, RAF aircraft dropped hundreds of dummy paratroopers …
Steinbeck on Struggling with a Scene
Another bit of great writing advice from John Steinbeck: …
Advice from Steinbeck to Kick Off NANOWRIMO
Today is the first day of NANOWRIMO, wherein some crazy folks try to write an entire novel draft in a month. I confess that is faster that I can write (and …
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Writing Advice from Ernest Hemingway on the Anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls
Today marks the anniversary of the publication in 1940 of my personal favorite Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Coincidentally, tomorrow marks the …
23 Tips from Aaron Sorkin’s Screenwriting Master Class
I recently participated in Aaron Sorkin's online screenwriting master class, which I highly recommend for any story writer -- it is more about story than about …
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