Happy Valentine’s Day! Though I love chocolate and roses as much as the next woman, I fully realize relationships and romance are about more than just one day. It may seem an unlikely source, but I’ve learned a lot about love from our dog: No one is perfect If you’ve been in a relationship for [...]
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When you start a new story, which comes first: plot or character? Every writer I’ve ever meet seems to fall into one of these two categories. Their mind inevitably turns first to one or the other. I am without question a plot-first writer. It has happened—more than once, I might add—that I’ve sent the opening [...]
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Remember a deep, rich voice drawling, “Welcome to Hollywood. What’s your dream?” For me, that opening line from the movie Pretty Woman so clearly illustrates both sides of this tricky dream-chasing business. There’s the shiny, impossible, just-out-of-reach dream world on one side, and the seedy reality of life as we know it on the other. [...]
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