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Yesterday I started a new short story with the working title, “The Substance of Things Hoped For.” I had a hard time getting it under way. I knew the broad outline of what I wanted to write, but the opening words wouldn’t come. After spending too much time doing unnecessary research, I decided to describe [...]

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I finished “Untitled Stephen Regan Story #1″ earlier this week. It’s not much of a working title, is it? I often struggle with titles. It’s a good thing I don’t have children. They’d have been named “Work in progress” for the first three years of their lives. Usually, whatever triggered the idea for the story [...]

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The second post in my weekly series on Windows & Word tips for writers is up on the FWA Saint Peterburg Writers Group blog.

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I added 500 more words to my new short this morning. It’s been easy so far. I introduced a new character today; tomorrow I will need to spend time considering her motivation before I continue the narrative. I don’t know for sure how long this story will be, but at 1,000 words, I feel as [...]

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In both of the stories I recently finished, I discovered that my struggles with the plots were caused by lack of character development–both on the page and in my mind. I’d like to avoid making that mistake again, so I’m taking a different approach to developing my next story. For the last two, I started [...]

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