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June 10, 2018 From The Editor's Desk / Literature / Writing

Favorite Closing Lines in Literature

Some books just stay with you. They haunt you. You dream of the characters, and of what would be if

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May 6, 2018 Did You Know ? / Editor's Toolkit / From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Master Outlining & Tracking for your novel

I just finished editing the second novel in the Bayou Talents series for Edward Branley, Trusted Talents.  As I am

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January 9, 2018 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Writing

Choosing the Right Point of View for Your Story

Point of View The Narrator’s personality and perspective helps shape the reader’s perspective, and how the story unfolds. The reader

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October 27, 2017 Arcadia Coach / From The Editor's Desk / research / Writing

The Fourth “R”- RESEARCH (Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmatic and…)

Editor’s Note: This is cross-posted at Arcadia Coach, the new venture I am working on with Edward Branley. Hope to

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October 10, 2017 Quote / Words / Writing

A writer is… by Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words

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October 2, 2017 Quote / Writing

Editing lets the fire show through the smoke ~ Arthur Plotnik

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and we edit to let

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September 19, 2017 Language / Ted Talks / Writing / YouTube

10 TED Talks for Writers … on creativity, process, storytelling, and passion

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story Amy Tan:

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September 5, 2017 Quote / Writing

The bastard chimera we call a ‘story.’ – Caitlín R. Kiernan

“It is not the task of a writer to ‘tell all,’ or even to decide what to leave in, but

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March 17, 2017 Books / From The Editor's Desk / Writing

What is a Beta Reader’s Role?

Beta readers are people who are most likely to buy and read your book. They play an important role in

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September 16, 2016 book lists / Books / From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Umberto Eco and the Anti-library

  “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is

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June 7, 2016 author interview / Writing / YouTube

Umberto Eco: Advice to the Young

Best-selling Italian novelist Umberto Eco here advises aspiring writers not to take themselves too seriously, but to go step by

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June 6, 2016 From The Editor's Desk / Literary Arts Series / Monday Musings / Quote / Writing

Mark Twain on Writing: “Kill your adjectives”

Mark Twain, who read widely, was passionately interested in the problems of style; the mark of the strictest literary sensibility

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June 2, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

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May 31, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

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May 30, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – John Steinbeck and Dorothy Parker

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

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