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Alison Acheson
Jul 6
Using Your Table of Contents for Structure and Pacing in Your Novel
A post first draft check-in point
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Alison Acheson
Jun 17
The Naming of a Publication
When writer-friends put their heads together
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Alison Acheson
Jun 14
How to Work With Internal and External Character Goals When Writing Fiction
And the pacing that emerges
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Alison Acheson
Jun 12
Finding Solid Writing Books is Key to Self-Educating
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Dorothea Brande, and Rita…
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Alison Acheson
Jun 1
Writing the Collection of Connected Short Stories
And “Why not a novel?”
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Alison Acheson
Apr 7
Gossip and the Writer
Does it have a place?
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Alison Acheson
Mar 7
Quantity and/or Quality in Daily Writing
Revisiting Dorothea Brande’s idea of “20 minutes EVERY day”
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Alison Acheson
Jan 31
Dealing
With Rejection — What Happens After You “Own Your Weird” Writing?
It’s even more personal
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Alison Acheson
Jan 25
Pets and Animals in Novels and Short Stories
Where are they?
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Alison Acheson
Jan 8
Working With “Mystery” in Fiction
John Keats’ idea of ‘
negative capability’
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