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Jan.06.2009
I am the guest blogger at Fresh Fiction. Today only, stop by and comment for your chance to win a copy of the first book in the Dante Chronicles series, Nora's Soul.
http://freshfiction.com/blog/2009/01/margay-leah-justice-from-conception...
Hope to see you there!
Margay Leah Justice
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Jan.05.2009
I tend to break one of those writerly rules that seems so rigidly accepted that I don't think many people really question or debate it. I edit as I write. This seems to contravene the advice of many writers that you should simply sit down and write and not worry too much about how it turns out. The...
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Jan.04.2009
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Jan.04.2009
The headline to this post should probably be my koan and my mantra for the upcoming year. It causes me to consider one of the biggest risks that I think we as writers could fall into, which is a sense of complacency in our writing.
I come to this thought after reading a post in another blog where...
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Jan.02.2009
I had a great amount of fun yesterday, putting together a trailer for The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy. I have no idea whether or not trailers do ultimately make a huge difference to book sales, but they're so much fun to make (well, this one certainly was) that I'm not sure I really...
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Dec.31.2008
Almost a day after I received an email from the editor of a forthcoming fiction anthology to submit a piece and an email from a prospective agent asking for more information on my writing, I received a rejection that I really had been hoping would have been an acceptance. Despite the two pieces of...
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Dec.30.2008
Periodically I briefly experience the desire to get an MFA. I don't go through it because I think it will make me a better writer--though I'm sure it would--but because I want to teach. There is this bizarre contradition that exists within the writing world that really bothers me because I think it...
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Dec.30.2008
A story of mine was just published in the latest edition (volume six, issue one) of the excellent lit journal Redivider.
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Dec.28.2008
Here are a couple of quotes from my Quote of the Day list:
"The relationship between the fiction writer and the reader is, in some ways, tantamount to a seduction: the writer, via the plot, awakens a desire within the reader, and the longer the desire remains unsatisfied, the more intensely it...
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Dec.26.2008
I’ll admit it. One of the things I love about Facebook is that it gives me the impression of being in contact with so many people from all phases of my life–elementary school classmates, lost friends from high school, college comrades who fought the good fight alongside me or worked at the Kresge...
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