Tag: The Bear

Plotting

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After all the time I have written prose and taught story structure and analysis, I would have thought that composing an outline for my first original novel would be pretty straightforward. Instead, I find myself working in fits and starts, trying to find the throughline for the story. I had the inciting incident as the […]

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Shifting Gears

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I turned 67 on Thursday, and rather than relax and luxuriate in the hundreds of greetings arriving via social media, I made it my most productive day of the week. The number doesn’t bother me; it’s far from a milestone. I did make sure to knock off early enough to read some and then go […]

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