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Exercise #16 Work with one of your completed stories that has a character who needs fleshing out. Take out a sheet of paper and number from one to thirty-four. At the top of the page, write in the title of … Continue reading →

Worked on an exercise from What If? and continued with “Ghost Dad,” the scene from that story that’s probably at least a novella. I’m calling the whole piece “The Conservator.” You can skip ahead to that scene here. From What … Continue reading →

Send out cover letters for no more than 30 minutes Do one or two exercises, depending on how long the first one is Write another scene from “The Conservator.” Critique Melissa’s story First I have to do some yoga, though.

I actually wrote this stuff yesterday, but didn’t get around to posting them. The first part is another What If? exercise and the second is a scene from a story that I’m working on. It’s probably going to turn into … Continue reading →