A large number of published writers are exposing the secrets of the trade to anyone who wants to read it.  Astounding, isn’t it?  Check out Poe’s Deadly Daughters.  Here, day after day, the bloggers not only promote their books, but give advice to budding authors.  This is free. Why do they do this?  Because they [...]

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I am at the place in my book where I must flesh out my dastardly villains so I can continue the story. So far I know I have multiple villains They are Chinese They deal in human smuggling They are using the previously empty beach house as a drop off point because of the river [...]

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It’s a wonderful thing being one of the world’s creative people. It’s fun tapping your creative side and seeing what you can do with it. When the creative process is complete, you polish and edit until your work is a thing of wonder – to you. Then, you send it out to the world. In [...]

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I’m writing a book. There I am typing furiously, I look down, and say “What the . . . ” Frankly, I wonder who’s been writing while I was in La La land. The story has taken an unexpected, unplanned twist. Something has happened on the page and I’m not sure where it came from. [...]

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