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  • Evaluate How the Characters You Write Show Sacrifice Friday, June 21st, 2019     Start the Conversation

    DiAnnMills Our characters are plunged into an unsteady world brimming with high stakes and a strong potential for failure. The character chooses to go after a goal or solve a problem and is determined to do whatever it takes to succeed. But does the character understand that determination and commitment…

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  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Sixth Rule for Writing Fiction Thursday, June 20th, 2019     Start the Conversation

    @ADGansky Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them–in order that the reader may see what they’re made of.–Kurt Vonnegut No one likes to betray a friend, but we sometimes feel that way when we make bad things happen to…

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  • Try Out Your Writing Wings Before You Fly Wednesday, June 19th, 2019     4 Comments

    @EdieMelson A lot of newer writers I meet find themselves overwhelmed with the myriad of opportunities in the field of writing. They struggle, trying to decide between writing articles, devotions, fiction, non-fiction, etc. Writing is a big field, and if you didn’t study some aspect of it in college, the…

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  • Race to Your Writing Future Tuesday, June 18th, 2019     4 Comments

    Charlotte, NC – NASCAR officials confirmed today that Team EdieMills will begin driving car #BRMCWC in next week’s race. The team, made of authors Edie Melson and Diane Mills, is the first to replace car numbers with hashtags. Steve Phelps, President of NASCAR says, “This dynamic female duo is set…

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  • A Creative Way to Make Your Word Count Goal – Word Crawl Monday, June 17th, 2019     6 Comments

    @LynnHBlackburn I don’t know what kind of writer you are, but I’m the kind of writer that prefers to have at least an hour, preferably a couple of hours, to focus on my story. In a perfect world this would happen every time I sat down to write. I have a…

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  • Enneagram Type 2, The Helper—How to Use Enneagram to Type the Characters You Write Friday, June 14th, 2019     Start the Conversation

    @LindsBrac For the rest of the year, we’re discussing the Enneagram as a tool for building authentic (and flawed) characters. I am by no means a psychologist or an expert, but I have found that a general understanding of this ancient personality-typing tool helps me build better characters. There's a…

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