Jessica P. Morrell© “A strongly motivated need or desire sets in motion actions and revelations that return to dramatically affect a character, resulting in the final cry from Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove: “We will never again be as we were!” The plot has worked from disorder to order, from an unstable situation […]
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Bitter Truth # 4
Bitter truth # 4. Starting is the easy part. I’ve known many writers, myself included, who began books we never finished. The reasons for not continuing are, of course, myriad. Some of these concepts or plots just didn’t hold up. Some were too skimpy or too complicated. Too silly or too much of a downer. […]
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Bitter Truth: the publishing world is not a fair playing field. At some point in childhood most kids learn that life is often not fair. No matter how that realization comes about, when that lesson is learned, it’s rarely learned through observation, but rather experience. Perhaps you were a major acting talent in 10th grade, […]
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