Word by Word

Practical insights for writers from Jessica P Morrell

Archive for January, 2014

“When I start I have a pretty well developed idea what the book is about and how it ought to go, because generally I’ve been thinking about it and making notes for months if not years. Generally I have the ending in mind, usually the last paragraph almost verbatim. I begin at the beginning and […]

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Writing saved my life. Before I found writing I had exhausted all the other ways of being in the world that I knew about. But, as with anything that one makes entirely one’s own, I had to reinvent writing. I had to unravel everything I had been taught and wind it back up again, my […]

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Making it in Changing Times one day conference on January 25

Writers, mark your calendars for a truly remarkable conference. Unlike most writers’ conferences, you need not block out a week, merely a day, and that’s January 25th, 2014, when Making It in Changing Times Mini-Conference for Writers comes to Portland, Oregon. Learn practical valuable information that you can immediately put to use in your writing […]

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Famous writers plot drawings

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