Humor sometimes feels like a soap-bubble—will it pop if you reach for it? If you define it, will you lose its ...
Novels resources from our blog
We teach a variety of revision techniques at our Revision Retreat workshop--this is one of our favorites.
One ...
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List three historical events that shake you somehow. Maybe they’re awful or full of grace or so unlikely ...
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A few weeks back, we hosted 19 folks at our Whole Novel Historical Fiction workshop. Mealtimes were lively with ...
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Imagine it: Someone hands you a credit card without a limit and says, “Go nuts.” Oh, the possibilities...oh, the ...
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No, that isn’t a spelling mistake. Next time you’re out walking through the woods (or running along city streets), ...
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There is magic in discovering a character’s journey – no matter the age, no matter the genre. We cast a spell on ...
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It often takes years for a writer to find his or her authentic voice. Voice is not simply the way a writer says ...
In a fervent effort to procrastinate from writing a synopsis, I found myself organizing notebooks. I know that a ...
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The beginning of the Getting to Know Your Novel workshop was all fun and games. The number-one rule that our ...
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To develop character, we must make a number of choices: name, gender, age, race, shape, and more. We dig deeper to ...
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Nicole Valentine (nicolevalentinebooks.com), one of the faculty for our Whole Novel Workshop, shared some thoughts ...
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