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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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Using historical characters in your novel

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Historical fiction can get a jolt of recognition and period authenticity when you allow your fictional characters to interact with real life figures...
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What you can learn about writing from Mad Men

Friday, November 13th, 2009 · 5 comments

I watch way too much TV, which I won't apologize for. It passes the time in the evenings, and doesn't demand much...
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Fiction devices: Giving away the ending (or what you can learn from Titanic)

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Love Story does it, as mentioned yesterday. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love does it. Titanic famously does it,...
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Great Beginnings Monday: Erich Segal

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What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? This line has become famous as perhaps the corniest, sappiest. kitschiest openings ever...
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What you can learn about writing from Count Leo Tolstoy

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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

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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

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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

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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