What Part Are You Good At?

I have an important question to ask you writers on this rainy (if you’re in the tri-state area) Monday… What part are you good at?

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How Many Unfinished Novels Do You Have?

This past weekend, I hit a wall with my current novel-in-progress. I’m not sure what it is, only that I lost the love of writing it. This has happened to me before. And I knew I had two choices.

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MK’s Book Reviews: Daughter of Smoke and Bone 

So I recently read this amazing book…

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What Makes It Epic?

Two weeks ago I asked this very important question, and last week I asked this one. Today I’m asking the final question in this series…

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My Favorite Female Writers

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, I’d like to pay something of an homage to my favorite female writers. The following women are everything I aspire to be as a writer. Also, from what I’ve heard, they’re pretty cool people, too. Jennifer Niven Starting off this list with my newest fave. I’ve only read one […]

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Writing Tip: Don’t Focus on Theme (in the first draft)

I gave away what I’m going to be talking about in my title. But this is really important, so please read on…

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What Keeps You Reading?

Last week I asked this very important question, and this week I’m asking something equally important…

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What Draws You Into A Story?

I haven’t decided what my next Learning from the Masters lesson will be. So for today, I’m asking a very important question…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I read Neil Gaiman’s latest oeuvre this week, and I’m here to tell you what I thought…

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Writing Tip: “Three Great Scenes, No Bad Ones”

So as I’m slogging through my current work-in-progress, there are a lot of problems I’m encountering. One of them is this:

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