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A joke that occurs in dangerously close proximity to horrors can sometimes seem tasteless or insensitive, but gallows humor has a powerful ability to leaven, ameliorate and help process the intensity of emotion that surrounds the horror. Lorrie Moore's Story "Terrific Mother" (
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In a recent Thursday Craft Conversation at the 24-Hour Room Lounge, we talked about unblocking, and people shared many strategies. My belief is that any writer who faces the problem of being blocked needs a substantial and varied arsenal of tools to deal with it. Some will work…

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Whether you've finally reached the end of your book, or you are just at the beginning, or you're bogged down in the middle of things, or you have no…
The first page of your book or story is essential, arguably as important as the entire remainder, since it determines whether readers will read on. What…
create a self-guided tour to internal coherence
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compression and building reader agency
using action to define character
narrators and personae
world building that builds reader agency
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