Tag: The Gilded Age

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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What I did on my Summer Vacation

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The summer has dwindled to a close. As you read this, today is the first day of my academic year. We have this week for meetings, prep, and freshmen orientation, with the students arriving on the 25th. In some ways, we saved the best for last by taking a two-week cruise at the end of […]

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