rjpostauthorAug 16, 20234 minWhere does fiction part from reality? Authors answerWho was the real Holly Golightly? A German refugee? Gloria Vanderbilt? Marilyn Monroe? Just Google the question, and you’ll find no...
rjpostauthorMay 15, 20234 minBatten down the hatches! Get weather in your writingIt was a dark and stormy night. Argh! Not the cliched bit of purple prose Snoopy used as the opening line every time he sat down at the...
rjpostauthorDec 3, 20223 minDon’t get trapped by tropesWhen my kids were little and we’d sit down to read a book or watch a movie, they would often say, “Is this supposed to be like …?” Fill...
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