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  Found in my electronic chapbook. [T]here’s something else you can do that may increase the effectiveness of your reading. It’s simple enough. You outline what you’ve read. For example: Two brothers are on their way to commit a big-time robbery when they run low on gas in the middle of nowhere. [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. Understand, please, that I did not learn any formulae. I don’t know that such a thing exists. What I did learn, in a manner I cannot entirely explain, is a sense of the possible variations that could be worked upon the crime story, a sense of [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. In the name of research, I promptly read every other lesbian novel I could lay my hands on. Then one morning the plot came to me, and I outlined it, and a few weeks later I sat down and wrote the thing in two weeks flat, [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. [O]ne of the things that makes a story writable, if you will, is when you read it and identify not only with the characters but with the writer. Here was someone writing and publishing well-written stories that I could respect and enjoy—and I could see myself [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. If you can’t stand to read a particular type of story, you’re wasting your time trying to write it. p. 27 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 641 words yesterday morning and my total word count is [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. [I]t was ever so clear to me that I would in due course produce a Great Novel of my own. I’d go to college first, naturally, where I might get a somewhat clearer idea of what constituted a Great Novel. Then I’d emerge from college into [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. The cartoon showed a sullen eight-year-old boy facing an earnest principal. “It’s not enough to be a genius, Arnold,” the man was saying. “You have to be a genius at something.” I recall identifying very strongly with Arnold. I had known early on that I wanted [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. From the preface: I read every letter I get, and I reply to most of them. I almost always reply to those accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. A word to the wise… p. 13 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. [Block] too, has suffered resistance, bewilderment, occasional lapses in faith. He has begun and abandoned manuscripts, been blocked, given up all hope, has returned to half-finished books with puzzlement about why he broke off the writing, turning them into some of his most accomplished published works. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. [Block] seemed amused by the question. “So what if someone else does well? That doesn’t affect me or my work. p. 10 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I took the morning off yesterday [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. I made a point of reading Telling Lies For Fun And Profit before beginning each new book. p. 9 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I took the morning off yesterday and so my [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. I sat up, amazed to find that in the chapter called “Opening Remarks,” Lawrence Block had written about the very frustration I was experiencing with K Is For Killer. Furthermore, his advice about openings was right on the money. I set the book aside and went [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. I tried an opening or two, but I couldn’t hit a vein. p. 9 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,505 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 12,003. [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. Give writing top priority. Make it the first thing you do. p. 89 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,577 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 10,498. [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. I’ve found a couple of things I can do to make my writing life as guilt-free as possible, and I pass them on for whatever they’re worth. First, I make writing the first thing I do. Second, I try to work seven days a week. Third, [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. I don’t structure my work in terms of hours, finding it more useful to aim at producing a certain amount of work, usually somewhere between five and ten pages depending on the sort of material I’m working on, the deadline I’m facing and the phases of [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. “Telling writers how to fake,” she said, “is like teaching children how to steal. You should be ashamed of yourself.” I should indeed be ashamed of myself, and I often am, but not this time. For fakery is the heart and soul of fiction. All our [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. There was once a school of thought in the theater that maintained that scenery should be as detailed as possible, even down to details which could never possibly be apparent to the audience. If there was a desk on stage, for example, there ought to be [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. Afterward, though, when you reread what you’ve done, you might want to see whether your modifiers , your descriptive words, do the job you’ve given them. should they be more or less specific? Should they me more descriptive? More judgmental? Are you trying to control the [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. If you’re interested in watching a master put not only verbs but all the other parts of speech through their paces, you might make the acquaintance of Pelham Greenville Wodehouse. p. 205 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. There is no more important component of fiction than dialogue. The words your characters speak to one another do more to convey their nuances to the reader than any words you can employ yourself to sketch them. Dialogue advances and defines plot, renders complicated developments fathomable, [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. We cannot control how the reader will receive our fictional message, nor should we be able as writers to assert such control. The best we can do, I believe, is write carefully and as honestly as we can and let the reader make of our work [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. The best surprise endings don’t merely surprise the reader. In addition they force him to reevaluate everything that has preceded them, so that he views the actions and the characters in a different light. p. 188 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:30am EST
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  Found in my electronic chapbook. On the other hand, there’s a special treat for the reader when the writer does try for verisimilitude. When I can read a book and believe (in the sense of that voluntary suspension of disbelief essential for success of fiction) that I’m reading real letters or [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30am EST
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