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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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I finished the first draft of “Big Little Blonde” this morning, a story that vexed me last year. Again, poorly developed characters were the culprit and once I spent more time on their motivations, the story was easy to write. Tomorrow I’ll decide what story I want to work on next–I have many ideas to [...]

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This morning, I finished the first draft of a short story I’ve been scratching at all year like a persistent insect bite. I’ve already written about the reason it took so long in my last post. Once I got a fuller understanding of my protagonist, writing it became much easier. Frequent pauses during construction of [...]

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I’ve been struggling with a short story for the past two weeks. Writing the first draft earlier this year was arduous. A plot that looked good in outline seemed improbable while I wrote, and led to an unsatisfying ending. I hoped that revision would be easier. It hasn’t been. How I’ve struggled with that plot! [...]

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