Creating a good description helps us define our characters for the reader, which is the first step towards bringing them to life.
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On a chilly December night in 1927, the elite of New York filed into Carnegie Hall to hear a new concerto by one of the city’s most popular men.
Read MoreOne should never try to date and sell a novel at the same time; one bleeds into the other. Stood up on Friday night, I spent the weekend rewriting Chapter One. When an agent finally offered to represent me, I had to fight to urge to take her to meet my mother.....
Read MoreIt's been a long time since I've mutilated a rejection slip. The digital age has robbed me of the pleasure, no matter how hard I hit that delete key.
Read MoreIn three sentences, I attempted to set up the story's main characters and their problem: one of them is dead and one of them isn't.
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