There’s always more than one thing going on in a character’s life.
How often have you had only one thing going on in your life; one thing to concentrate on and nothing else? Not too often I’ll bet, but that’s the way life is.
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In 2 days, a group of committed, motivated and devoted writers embark on a challenge. Monday March 4th these writers will start writing and they won’t stop until they have a novel, In 60 days. As far as I know, there’s no psychic surgery that pulls novels out of writer’s minds. But I do know what [...]
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If you are writing an autobiography, it would really help a lot of you are both, dead and famous. Or you can write in the voice of a heroic dog. That would definitely make you auto- biographical material. It would also be a great boon to sales if you are Google-able along with the likes [...]
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Forget about putting down the cigarettes, the alcohol, stopping those sleepless nights banging away at that novel or screenplay, with chips, donuts or whatever strewn everywhere (forget about losing weight as well). Hold on to your bad habits and keep writing because you have one and only one resolution as a writer: I resolve to [...]
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I don’t believe in writer’s block. So don’t tell me you have it. I have an uncle who drives a truck. Every morning he gets up and goes to work. He never has truck-driver block. Writing should be the same for you. I know some of you have heard me say that before, but it [...]
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