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The place where we neatly arrange random thoughts on the writing craft, by us and others

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Book report: lessons from judging a lit award

Covers, publishers, and getting down to DNF

May 25 •

Reverse outlining lessons from an Edgar winner

PLEASE SEE US author Caitlin Mullen shares one of her essential craft tools for developing and revising suspense fiction

May 18

What Your Characters Don’t Know...Could Kill Them

Using Dramatic Irony to Build Tension in a Novel

Apr 13 •

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The One with Some Thoughts on Voice (re: I Have Some Questions for You)

In which we have no questions for Rebecca Makkai but will gladly compile thoughts from interviews she has given elsewhere, in order to discuss a tricky…

Mar 23 •

Andromeda Romano-Lax

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