Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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The chance to learn techniques from established authors is definitely worth the price of admission to Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Yesterday, science fiction author Kevin Ikenberry delivered a great lecture on the care and feeding of antagonists in the novel. Ikenberry was personable, funny and informative. He offered great examples to illustrate his points, delving…
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Here’s the side of my formerly spiffy fake leather jacket, which I used to wear for work all the time, when I was getting paid to work. That’s, oh, six years back. Yesterday I dug it out of the back of my closet, where it had been undisturbed for six years. I tried it on,…
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Writing may be a thing you do alone in a room, but sometimes you have to leave the cozy private space and venture forth. I’m at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference in Colorado Springs, hobnobbing with my fellow scribblers. First session of the day is a read and critique. The first page of my novel…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 