I promise to keep these days in between the lines. Impulse control forecasts are downward trending. Of course I still think about you. Staying in my own body was the only way to proceed. Fantasy is not a safe p
As we saw last time, a professional book proposal contains a wide range of marketing materials, all written in the proposer’s best possible prose, cleverly fitted together in a manner to convince an agent or editor that the proposed book an interesting idea that will appeal to a very specif...
Instead of tying together ANYTHING in the previous episodes, the final two episodes of Agatha All Along take an interesting story about power, death, and the ambiguous nature of seeking power and turns into a cheap, knockoff M. Night Shymalan production. I fiercely argue this is not an ...
As an example, one of my most popular articles of all time is abouthow to write a story. It perfectly follows the “Problem Solved” template, which I'll share below. Since it was first published in 2013, it has been read over 1.8 million times. Here's a screenshot that shows its ...
It’s the little things Series on Instagram–An expression of gratitude for the every day joys of life. No matter how small. 8. Did some work on my most current Short Story Series here on MLW- Black Nightingale- New Chapters SOON! 9. Also…I kept up my journaling habit too. I ...
If you had the chance to spend an hour with any writer of your choice, living or dead, who would it be and what would you most like them to tell you about living a writing life? I think Jane Austen. I’d like to ask: ‘How do you put everything of yourself into a story, and...
“In addition to the Solar-Powered Time Machine series and her hands-on unit studies for homeschoolers, Alana has published A Boy Named Silas: The First Five Years, the true story of her second son’s complicated medical history. She also writes Christian fiction and was recently named a ...
UPDATED March 10:In the third installment of the series entitled "Rappaport's Law," Rowling explains why the wizard and No-Maj (Muggle) communities became segregated. The tragic story tells the tale of a prominent wizard's daughter Dorcus Twelvetrees who falls in love with a No...
(I still have my original copy of both of them, and the pages are smeared with pie, which is what I like to eat when I’m obsessing over books.) And then Dennis Lehane’sMystic River. Huge for me, because I’d been trying to writeSharp Objectsas a story about a mother and ...
It started when I woke up on July 4th*. Both of my ears felt clogged, like when you’re in an airplane and can’t get them to pop. My right ear cleared in 30 or so minutes, but the left felt clogged most of the day. At some point I noticed the plugged feeling had been replac...