Being a writer is one of the greatest jobs in the world. You get to be your own boss (most of the time), you get to set your own schedule, you get to pick your own workspace, you get to define your own work procedures, and you get to determine your own pay (sort […]
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One of the fun things writers get to do is creating characters. While we have to accept the people around us in the real world, in our fictional worlds, we can create any character we want. We can make them as good as we want, or as evil as we can imagine. In most
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When I was younger, I had dreams of being a fantastic author. I had always been a smart kid, often regarded as above average in academic subjects. So why shouldn’t I think that I would be successful as an author? I did have all the requisites: a good
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I recently watched the movie Ever After (1998), staring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, and Jeanne Moreau. The movie is described as a post-feminist interpretation of the Cinderella story, though I am not at all sure exactly what that means. My daughter is much more of an expert about what various genres and
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When I was younger – much younger – I had the pleasure of consulting to McGraw-Hill Publishing. The client wanted to make their editors more productive. More productive editors meant more books published and obviously more books published meant more profits for McGraw-Hill. I’m not
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Although I’ve been writing most of my life, school, work, and family often interfered with some of the requirements of becoming an effective writer. One of the main requirements is having a dedicated effort to write, if not every day, at least as often as possible. Life gets in the
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