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17 Steps to Becoming an Effective Communicator with the Muse

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A romance writer awakens with her right eye swollen. I suggest that a male in her life wants her to open-up to something she’s refusing or unable to see (issues on the right side of the body often have to do with male energy. The right is female. Eyes = sight).Her eyes widen and she quickly mumbles that she needs to get to know her male protagonist better as if she knows what I’m talking about. I don't need to know what's going on. Only she does and she did.How real are the muses that have been …

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Character Emotional Development: Transformation and Emotional Maturity

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The emotional steadiness your protagonist develops in a story (character emotional development plot) comes from all that happens to her (dramatic action plot). Character emotional development: transformation and emotional maturity, I call change, maturity, transformation, transcendence. (Your genre and your story -- action-driven | character-driven -- define the level of character development that fits your story's underlying meaning.) Character emotional development toward transformation and …

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Writer Path Retreat Photo Montage

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Friday, May 30th, 2014,Jordan Rosenfeldand I meet up at Mt. Madonnabefore the 18 intrepid writers who signed up for our weekend writers retreat. Our spacious cabin greets us. Anticipation envelopes us. The first writer arrives.So begins the 1st ever Writer Path Plot and Scene Retreat. Sign-ups now available for next year's Writer Path Retreat May 1st - 3rd, 2015! …

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Beginnings Hook Readers. Endings Create Fans!

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Beginnings Hook Readers ~ Endings Create Fans! In wanting to perfect their story beginnings to hook readers, writers often spend all their time writing and rewriting and rewriting the beginning. After messing with the beginning 10,000 times, writers often neglect giving the same sort of attention to the ending and fulfill their promise to their readers. Instead, try starting at the ending and work your way to the beginning. Yes, beginnings hook readers. Endings create fans. To help with this …

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A Soul Shattering Tip How to Plot the End of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay

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October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), the epicenter of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit nearly smack in my garden. The doorframe I clutched shifted erratically, the floor beneath me shook, the house creaked and moaned, and all water in the little neighborhood pool across the street shot into the air and broke over the side.  As Robert Page, U.S. Geological Survey writes of the event: "It was a wakeup call to prepare for the potentially even more devastating shocks that are inevitable in the …

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