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When a Few Words Change Your Life
A rather short one for you today, dear writers, about how two short sentences turned a teenager into a novelist.
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As a kid, Walter Mosley (author of the bestsellin...
My Daughter Went to College and I Ate Salad with James Patterson
My firstborn started college last week, all the way on the other side of the country, even though the week before she was 13 and had turned all the living room furniture upside down for April Fool’s Day, and the week before that she was eig...
Five Surprising Reasons to Write a Novel
The other day I learned that Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, to take his mind off his upcoming nuptials to Ann Charteris, a British aristocrat. Although the two had been lovers for years, Fleming was experiencin...
Ann Beattie's Barf Bag
“I can hardly think of anything that pleases me more than writing a sentence that surprises me.” —Ann Beattie
Amen to that.
Once in a while, when I don’t feel like writing first thing—when it seems as if none of my sentences could possibl...
In Praise of Interruptions
Hi writers,
Today I’m reminding you—and myself, as it happens—that there’s a lot of useful material in the Good Ideas archives. Below are two previously paywalled craft posts about dialogue.
POST #1: Someone once told me that bad d...
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Author of Hello Goodbye and coauthor of the middle-grade series Evil Alien Warlord Cat. Cowriter of numerous New York Times bestsellers with James Patterson. Former high school teacher, magazine editor, and celebrity ghostwriter.
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