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Craft of Writing Q&A: AJ Calhoun
The first half of this week has brought renewed heartbreak for the deep, painful fissures and hairline cracks that race across the map of America. Yet somehow, tomorrow, many of us will be more...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Melanie Sumner
Secrets, regrets, love, a missed flight . . . all of it is fodder for writer Melanie Sumner, author of the forthcoming novel, How to Write a Novel (Random House, June 2015.) She has published three...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Summer Wood
First, yes. Summer Wood is her real name. We share an August birthday (same day, same year—she’s my astral twin). Her mother lived in a walk-up apartment in New York City when she was pregnant, and...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Katie Salidas
Katie Salidas is a writing and publishing dynamo. Author of the Immortalis urban fantasy series, the Consummate Therapy erotica series, and the recently released Chronicles of the Uprising dystopian...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Laura Bogart
For years, my writing mantra has been Be fearless. By that, I mean Be honest. Tell the truth. Don’t shy away from the details. Don’t flinch. Every time I sit in front of my computer or pick up a pen,...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Meg Pokrass
Of all the writing advice I’ve read and heard over the years, Meg Pokrass may have just delivered my favorite: “Tell the mojo it is time to wank off and let the writer work.” Read on, because the...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Wendy Chin-Tanner
Years ago, I labored under the illusion that I had to write at my desk—and I do mean labored. Just the act of sitting at a desk applied pressure in a way that made the cogs in my brain jerk to a halt...
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The View from the High Road
The drive from Santa Fe to Taos is beautiful regardless of which route you take.After living in Taos for more than 20 years, I learned about a year ago that the route along the Rio Grande is called the...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Lea Lane
One of my favorite paintings is from a children’s book I edited, a retelling of the folk tale The Three Sillies, in which a young man leaves his village on a quest to find three people who are sillier...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Janet Majerus
Cozy. The word itself sounds snuggly, doesn’t it? Cozy is sitting in front of a fire, sipping cocoa and wearing your slippers, while the snow falls gently and a pot of soup simmers on the stove.Unless...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Lauren Bjorkman
I have an annoying tendency to throw around words and acronyms as if everyone knows what I’m talking about: I’ve never participated in NaNoWriMo, I’m a believer in sim subs, and I love YAs. If you’re...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Kate Horsley
Writing is my preferred form of communication. Pick up the phone? I really hate the phone, with its insistent icepick-to-the-brain ring—which isn’t even a ring these days unless you have a special...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Deonne Kahler
We all take away what we need from story. Whether it’s in the form of a novel, an article, a conversation, or an interview, story resonates. Different approaches to writing work for different writers....
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Debra Mihalic Staples
A literary dynasty is a lofty thing to contemplate. I recently read Charlotte Brontë: A Writer’s Life by Rebecca Fraser, and while I found it a bit stolid and too reliant on Elizabeth Gaskell’s...
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Craft of Writing Q&A: Scott Archer Jones
One of the things I most enjoy about the Craft of Writing series is the insight it offers into how other writers work—approaches that are as individual as the writers themselves. It’s easy to get hung...
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