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Author Archives: Jordan E. Rosenfeld
10 Ways to Launch Strong Scenes
Any story or novel is, in essence, a series of scenes strung together like beads on a wire, with narrative summary adding texture and color between. A work of fiction will comprise many scenes, and each one of these individual scenes must be built with a structure most easily described as having a beginning, middle and end. The beginning of each scene is what we’ll address here. Read more
William P. Young’s Cinderella Story
It’s the ultimate self-publishing dream: William P. Young’s novel went from photo-copied Christmas gift to chart-topping bestseller. Here’s how he pulled it off.
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Low-Residency MFA programs
Low-residency MFA programs offer writers the chance to grow from a distance.
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Does Free Pay?
Chris Anderson thinks you should consider giving your book away. Here’s why.
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The WD Interview:
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende found a release for her grief in the form of a memoir written to her departed daughter.
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The WD Interview: George Pelecanos
Having scribed detective novels and written for HBO’s “The Wire,” George Pelecanos knows what it takes to get down and dirty for his own brand of social crime fiction.
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted and The Sisters Eight series
Prolific author Lauren Baratz-Logsted enlisted a little help from those closest to home—her family—for her new children’s series The Sisters Eight.
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The Healing Truth
An aspiring fiction writer realizes her story is better told as a memoir.
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Notable Debut Authors October 2008
Check out these up-and-coming debut authors for the October issue of Writer’s Digest and the highly successful habits that helped them get published.
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WD Profile: Amy Bloom
From prose to screenwriting and back again—here’s what short-story writer and novelist Amy Bloom learned from moving between prose writing and the all-show, no-tell world of screenwriting.
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