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Tad Richards has been a successful freelance writer, editor of national and local magazines, and teacher of writing. His significant freelance credits include novels, poetry, nonfiction, songs, screenplays and plays. Contact him at tad@opus40.org

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What you can learn about writing from Count Leo Tolstoy

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 · 2 comments

The unreliable narrator is a potent but tricky device in fiction. To use it effectively, you have to stay outside the character, and be aware of his...
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Turning your book proposal into a website

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 · 1 comment

Why not make a web site of your book proposal? That's what historian/folklorist (and published author) Boria Sax has done, and his proposal site is...
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What you can learn about writing from Stephanie Hechtle Richardson

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 · 1 comment

Stephanie Hechtle Richardson is a young wife and mom in Utah, not a famous published writer, but you can learn from good writing wherever you find it,...
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Saying a lot with just a few words

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

XM Radio's "real jazz" channel has been running the following promo: "The swing of Prestige, the...
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The Heene balloon hoax -- and what you can learn about writing from Edgar Allan Poe

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The story of the little boy adrift in a balloon tore at heartstrings all across the country, and the anger at the father who apparently perpetrated a...
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What do you do if your plot is flagging? The Plot Doctor is IN.

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Shake your plot up. Whatever you're about to have your character do...have her do something else. She's telling the truth -- change to she's...
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What you can learn about writing from Tina Turner

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Surely, one of the best spoken intros to any recorded song is the one Tina Turner gives to "Proud Mary." She says: Y' know, every now and...
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Finish that novel!

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Don't get it right -- get it written. My friend George Ernsberger had that motto up above his typewriter (yes, writers once used those...
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Should you get an MFA?

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There are a lot of good reasons for getting into an MFA -- a Master of Fine Arts -- program. It really can help your writing. There's no guarantee...
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Writing fiction - surprise yourself

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Classic private eye novelist Raymond Chandler said that whenever he wasn't sure what do next, he had a man come busting through the door with a gun in...
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