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Subscribe nowFinding outlets for your writing requires taking scads of chances, consuming the output of others – inside and outside your medium/genre – active networking, and…
Read MoreQuestion: What should you do as soon as you finish your novel? This is not a trick question. I know you need to send query…
Read MoreIn 1954, Ralph Ellison told the Paris Review* that a character's development must proceed through three states: from purpose, through passion, to perception^. The beauty…
Read MoreIn 1955, Georges Simenon said the following to the Paris Review*. "...Instead of writing just the story, in this chapter I tried to give a…
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