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A sentence clinic
getting out the magnifying glass...
Elizabeth Gaffney
Mar 24
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Nail Your Opening
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…
Elizabeth Gaffney
Dec 8, 2022
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A Walk, Alone
At the beginning of WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, the protagonist sets off on a solitary walk in the county of Suffolk. He walks for hours each day…
Elizabeth Gaffney
Jul 22, 2022
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DRINK ME!
a generative, non prescriptive writing prompt
Elizabeth Gaffney
Jul 1, 2022
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DRINK ME!
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The End
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…
Elizabeth Gaffney
Dec 16, 2022
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Literary Mood Board
create a self-guided tour to internal coherence
Elizabeth Gaffney
Dec 1, 2022
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Autobiographia Literaria
a short prompt with long legs
Elizabeth Gaffney
Aug 18, 2022
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Points of View
narrators and personae
Elizabeth Gaffney
Nov 10, 2022
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Now What Do You Want?
Getting more specific about what drives your characters
Elizabeth Gaffney
Jul 8, 2022
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Unblocking
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…
Elizabeth Gaffney
Feb 2
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Unblocking
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Editing Dialogue
compression and building reader agency
Elizabeth Gaffney
Nov 23, 2022
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Stories within Stories
Is a play the thing? Or maybe an anecdote?
Elizabeth Gaffney
Mar 16
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