In addition to my publishing career, I also work as a physician specializing in brain injury. I’ve been working in the field for 12…
Techniques
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Writing can be the best hobby in the world, but it can also be the most frustrating. There’s nothing quite like creating a story…
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Journalists report. They provide information. They explain and sometimes, overexplain. They try not to leave it up to the reader to draw their own…
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This took place a handful of years ago, after I’d called the bestselling novelist of such legal thrillers as Presumed Innocent to feature him…
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There are some key scenes in your typical rom-com that writers have to nail (pun intended). Chief among them is the sex scene (if…
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Just how “into” your narrator’s head and heart do you want your readers to be? Do you want them to feel emotionally embedded with…
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A confession about my involvement with the gritty, secretive world of 1980s tattooing: It all blurs into one memory of sitting on a tattoo…
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Techniques
Connecting the Dots vs. Drawing the Whole Damn Picture: A Veteran Ghostwriter Takes Back His Pen and Finds Something To Say
by almostzoneby almostzoneOkay, so that’s really three questions shrink-wrapped into one, and there’s no easy answer to any one of them, but I always give it…
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To Marlon James, an epic is “a struggle that’s both very profound and very simple at the same time.” His Dark Star Trilogy, an…
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Let’s imagine, for a moment, that we’re meeting at an ice-cream shop. And let’s say I ask you, “What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?”…