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Check out the first in article in my new monthly column at Families OnLine Magazine Take Your Time Tillie .

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I tried many exercises in the various writing groups in which I participated before entering graduate school, and working towards earning my MFA. None left an impression, or stuck with me.
This is not to say the exercises held no merit.
Instead my focus lay severely on learning to write, as in craft a decent scene filled [...:]

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The best stories often have a twist at the end. But what is a twist?
Is it the result of having led the reader in one direction, only to surprise them with action rising from another?
Not quite.
The best way to understand twists in literature is to envision every story or novel as a mystery, or that [...:]

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Do you have any questions about writing?
Are you stuck with a story?
Don't know where your novel is headed?
Or simply need a boost to get writing?
Send me your questions and I'll address it it in a blog, with picture and everything.
Just for you.

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What's the premise of your novel? Do you need one? Why would you not?
Premise is the combination of character and situation.
What if Person A is forced to confront Situation F?
What if a teenager, after fighting to leave her mother and live with her father, discovers that her father is an alcoholic and a drug addict?
Story [...:]

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Check out my guest blog, Mother as Writer @ The Write at Home Mom.

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Like an old man watching children at play, we need to see through our own seriousness. No matter how seriously the children go about their games, the old man is amused and never for a moment takes them to be real. We can watch our own thoughts and emotions in the same way. Without [...:]

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I have read many articles this year stating that one of the major economic struggles of the publishing world are rooted in the high cost of publishers garnering books.
And who determines the cost of an author's publishing or book contract?
Agents.
We will not attempt to address the poor sales record yielded by many of the books [...:]

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Buddhism teaches that all things change, and that suffering is inherent to life.
As humans we add to this suffering, or rather amplify it, by trying to hold onto the narrative line that we have fed ourselves.
We resist the reality of change the various truths evidenced by its existence.
The story or narrative line to which we [...:]

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The self-doubt of our internal pacman says, "You can't," when it comes to achieving our goals, and certainly not in the way, and at the quality that we hope.
Mixed with our general fears about life, and living pacman overpowers us, and our ideas, and ostensibly contaminates our process of creativity.
But it is our ability to [...:]

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