Thu
28 Feb
This is a workshop I did with the girls I'm working with at Bailey's Cafe. It's partly inspired by a similar activity Tayari Jones was tweeting about a little while back. The ideas they came up with were terrific. 1. On one page, write the best (or one of the best) things anyone's ever said to...
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Thu
3 Jan
So this is a blog thread going around where different writers update on what we're working on and then pass it along. I was tagged by Kiini Ibura Salaam who got it from Ibi Zoboi, both amazing writers I'm proud to be in a collective with. What is the working title of your next...
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Tue
25 Dec
Soooo while writing today I did something totally against my nature as a writer: I went back and edited a scene I'd written the day before. IN FACT I literally just blogged about how I don't do that. What I do is steam power through first drafts, chop chop chop and mark down any changes I know will...
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Fri
21 Dec
My first short story collection, Salsa Nocturna, showed up on this most excellent list of Best Books of 2012: http://www.mybookishways.com/2012/12/mbw-best-books-of-2012-giveaway.html#comment-46505 My Bookish Ways also reviewed Salsa Nocturna earlier this year and did an interview with...
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Thu
20 Dec
It's still dark out. The tops of buildings on my block are silhouettes against the beginning of daybreak. A few lights come on; everything is so quiet. I've used this still-pretty-new blog to unload a bunch of heady thoughts so far - not sure anyone's visited except the pornographers and...
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Thu
20 Dec
This is part one of an ongoing series of posts on elements that make endings work. The intro is here. 6. Something has changed This element is a reinforcement of the general rule that no story should be just a day in the life. Specifically as it relates to ending though: The word climax...
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Fri
30 Nov
This is part one of an ongoing series of posts on elements that make endings work. The intro is here. Epic massive #SpoilerAlert: The whole last paragraph (but only the last paragraph) basically tells the whole ending of The Hunger Games (Just book 1). You been warned. 4. It...
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Mon
26 Nov
This is part one of an ongoing series of posts on elements that make endings work. The intro is here. 3. The Ending Is A Fulfillment of the Promise Made at the Beginning In Beginnings, Middles And Endings, Nancy Kress describes the beginning as a promise. Implicit within the prose,...
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Mon
12 Nov
This is part one of an ongoing series of posts on elements that make endings work. The intro is here. 2. A Gathering Of Forces An ending is a culmination. At its most ethereal, this could mean the various emotional motifs through the book gather to explode and reveal some revelation....
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Sun
21 Oct
This is part one of an ongoing series of posts on elements that make endings work. The intro is here. Today's #SpoilerAlert is for The English Patient. Enjoy! Stakes Are High The corollary to this is We Care About The Charactersbecause without that, the stakes will never truly feel high,...
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