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The Organic Writer
By Patricia Zick @PCZick I recently visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in western Pennsylvania. Wright described his design as organic architecture – a melding of nature and man. As I toured the home, I wanted to sit down and write. I yearned to send all the tour groups on their way so I could enjoy…
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Originally posted on She Writes With Love: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill Having been knee deep in the trenches of self-publishing for the last several months, I feel as though I’ve gotten a pretty good perspective on what’s really going on in…
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Win Live from the Road
Live from the Road is featured on Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews today. The blog contains an excerpt from the book, an interview with me and a chance to win either a print or kindle version of the book. Drop by and visit and enter to win! The contest ends September 22, 2012. I’m shamelessly…
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All memory is fiction
By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she…
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To Which or To That. . .
By Patricia Zick @PCZick that is the question, which I pose today. It’s always good to review the rules of grammar. Here’s an excellent article from Writer’s Digest on the vagaries of the not so interchangeable which and that. I probably need to read it a couple of times, even though I thought I knew…
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Point of View
“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. . .Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.” William Zinsser Point of view is crucial in a novel. One of the quickest ways to turn me from a book is immature point of view. I often experiment with…
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