It’s a quiet morning in the tall pines. Six inches of snow have fallen, and the breezes of the past few days have died down. Oregon juncos – like Alaskan ones but with peachy patches on their breasts – gather in small flocks outside the window. A bright varied thrush rests in a high branch […]
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When I was considering what to write for this blog post, I thought about what superpowers playwriting can share with other writing genres. One major difference between most forms of writing and playwriting is that a play is incomplete on the page. As a novel requires a reader and their imagination to participate in consuming
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“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.” ― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu was born sometime in the 970s to an aristocratic Japanese family. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, considered to be possibly the world’s first novel. In The Tale of Genji,
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In many popular books on the craft of writing, a common pattern emerges: the reader, writer, and protagonists are purposely defaulted to male. John Vorhaus in The Comic Toolbox writes, “A lot of times I call these people he, though of course I mean both he and she. Language lags behind social change, and the
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Whether you are pro-Amazon or hate the powerful marketing juggernaut, you have to admit it the company is the master of sales, delivery, and marketing of everything from books to bras to bonbons. Now Amazon has introduced the serialized novel as part of their Kindle bookshelf. It’s called Kindle Vella and it allows the reader
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