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The 8th Question Expanded–Believability

The exceptionally observant reader may have noticed that last week, in my big post, 8 Reader Questions – 8 Parts of Speech, the question of “Really?” is set apart and above the others. That’s because if there’s one cardinal rule for storytellers, it probably has something to do with this–make sure it’s believable. And while there are several key elements to
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Posted by Mick on Jul 10, 2017
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Editor to Author: Letter to a Memoir Writer

Dearest Author, I've been thinking about worth lately. What's your story worth? At a recent writers conference I taught a workshop on how I saw publishing changing. Modern publishing, the only time in history when we've had separate "markets" for books, has begun to fracture and redistribute. I've shared several times about how The Shack has shifted things. It isn't
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Posted by Mick on May 05, 2011
A Christian Writing Revolution?, A writer's motivation, Books, Conversations at the personality-splitting Bunn-o-matic, Current Affairs, Editing, Frivolity, How I got here, Inspiration, Meditations, Mission Statement, On High Quality, On publishing, On the Christian Booksellers Association, Postmodernism, Relevant culture news, Religion, Science, Some writing reality checks, The Christian publishing industry, The craft, The Shack, Useful, Your Writers Group community • Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post
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