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Using Real Life to Inspire Fiction

Using Real Life to Inspire Fiction

Whenever I have modeled characters after people I know, it either doesn’t work or it turns out to be a time consuming struggle to forge an independent identity for those characters.  So, I have learned to create a character who is physically and mentally very...
Reporting vs. Writing

Reporting vs. Writing

Stephen King said, in an interview, he views himself as more of a “reporter” than “writer.”  The difference may sound subtle but this idea changed my fiction writing tremendously.   Using his wonderful imagination, King “sees” the scene unfold and...