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When Do You Get Your Ideas?
It’s a classic question at author readings – where do you get your ideas? A better question, I think is when do you get your ideas? Where are you and what are you doing when your characters’ voices whisper in … Continue reading
Top ingredient for successful writing: Imagination
One thing that always gets a laugh when I give an author talk is when I tell the audience that I always expect to find a body when I open the door of an outhouse at a state park or … Continue reading
Micro-ideas from a high-definition world
Maureen here, still on a high from a three-day writing marathon that resulted in an (almost but not quite) completed first draft of the next book in the Bernie O’Dea mystery series, “No News is Bad News.” First drafts are … Continue reading
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