Life doesn’t get much better than the five days I just spent in Nashville and East Tennessee researching my historical novel. At my first Hamline residency I gave a talk entitled “Addicted To Research.” And I...
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Next month at the Hamline residency, Elizabeth Partridge will speak on her process of researching...
Read MoreGiving response to a writer’s manuscript is a delicate dance. We want to respond to what moves us, what confuses us, what keeps us reading. Most of all, I hope that my feedback can help another writer go deeper into the...
Read MoreWhile Anne is dealing with her long editorial letter, this bright news for the rest of you. A couple of my writer friends really keep up on the latest publishing news. I read or skip their emails, depending on my writing mood....
Read MoreWow. What a stimulating post and discussion about the structure of a novel. While you all contemplated writer as architect and looked upward, I was down in the dirt. If you build a house, you eventually have to deal with the...
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