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Janet Edwards
... up in prosaic England but also shared the lives of amazing people in fantastic worlds. Her guides were books written by authors, some ... or subconsciously)? I can’t write about real people. I think it’s the same problem as outlining. Basing a character on a ...
Author - Site Admin - Thu, 02/18/2016 - 2:49pm
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Where Do Ideas Come From? by Claire Merchant
... working on, I seem to be doing okay so far. A lot of people have asked me how I come up with the ideas for my stories. The short ... conversations need to feel natural, so pay attention to how people talk and the words they use. A lot of people have specific phrases that ...
Blog entry - admin - Sun, 05/31/2020 - 3:54am
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Where Do Ideas Come From?
... working on, I seem to be doing okay so far. A lot of people have asked me how I come up with the ideas for my stories. The short ... conversations need to feel natural, so pay attention to how people talk and the words they use. A lot of people have specific phrases that ...
Forum topic - Site Admin - Thu, 05/19/2016 - 8:50am
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Timothy Decker
... just sat down, wrote, and drew one. I was fortunate to know people who understood the world of children’s literature, and they guided me ... is finding a new way to bring an old story to life for people who may not know anything about it. I think it’s sad that many people ...
Author - Site Admin - Wed, 05/23/2018 - 9:30pm
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Lou Hoffmann
... I believed the fallacious truism that only certain special people could be published authors. I believed writing wasn’t a “real” job for someone like me, and of course responsible people have real jobs, right? I finally started to seriously question that ...
Author - LouHoffmann - Sun, 06/09/2019 - 8:08pm
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Sherry Ficklin
... A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white ... tough, because I feel like I'm constantly influenced by people and events in my life. I think everything we do and everyone we meet ...
Author - authorsherry - Thu, 02/18/2016 - 2:56pm
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Brenda Ortega
... than to spend every day with a notepad in hand, talking to people, asking questions, learning new stuff, and writing about it? It amazed ... permission to get into the most personal conversations with people I’d just met. It taught me to look deeply, and to listen carefully, to ...
Author - Brenda Ortega - Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:06pm
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Rachelle Burk
... in a book? I do often think about interesting people I know in order to create varied, fun, realistic characters, though my ... historical novelist Geraldine Brooks ( Year of Wonders , People of the Book , and March ), who wows me with her lyrical writing and ...
Author - glivwright - Sat, 06/25/2016 - 12:49pm
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Escape From Mariupol review by juliesaraporter
... to heal a man's wound and pulled glass out of other injured people. In another, a woman whom Marik called “the Florence Nightingale of ... the Czech Republic and United States. She was surrounded by people who either helped or complained about the recent immigrants from the ...
Review - juliesaraporter - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 9:06pm
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Helping Students "Visit" the Past
... something set in the past or even to imagine the lives of people who lived in previous eras. Even for advanced students in middle grades ... A rural area? What did their home look like? How many people were in their family? What were their chores? What games did they play ...
Forum topic - Site Admin - Thu, 05/19/2016 - 8:35pm