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Book Review: An Excessively Practical Guide to...

You walk into a dimly lit room. Seated at a small round table covered with velvet astrological signs is a woman in bohemian garb. She asks if you want to...

View from My Writing Desk

Piss yellow sky courtesy of wildfires ravaging the Pacific Northwest, photo by me This is the current view from my writing desk. An overcast sky in September isn't out of...

Questions Asked in Writing Groups: Should I Wri...

Many new writers ask, "Should I write under a pen name?" That is an excellent question but there is a time when you should be asking it and it isn’t...

The Last Day of NaNoWriMo

Photo by Designecologist on Pexels.com Yes, I know I quit. Yes. I know tomorrow is the last day of NaNoWriMo. However, the day I quit the contest, I started writing...

Writing Stories with Multiple Points of View: 4...

If you read this blog, I wrote an article about POV a few weeks back. If you don't know what POV is start here: https://danslaluneonacrimsondragon.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/point-of-view-pov-an-important-choice-in-story-craft/For those who do, let's move...

My Thoughts on the Big Five Becoming the Big Four

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com On 11/25/2020, Penguin Random House publishing bought failing Simon & Schuster. On Twitter, traditionally published authors, some my friends, lamented that it was going to...