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How Do You Internalize?

Novelists as Sponges We novelists have a basic propensity toward being sponges – we soak up so many things around us. And if we don’t actually start out that way we soon train our senses to do exactly that. We … Continue reading

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Shedding the Work-For-Hire Stigma

Nice Writers Don’t… Some people reading this blog came into the author/writer/publishing scene too late to be aware of the stigma that once was attached to those who were called (in polite terms) “a hired pen.” I recall a few … Continue reading

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