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How to Contrast Setting with Emotion

August 24, 2015 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Contrast emotion with setting in fiction This is a simple trick that can maximize any scene's emotional impact. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton offers a great contrast between … Continue reading >>

How to Cope with Writer’s Self Doubt

March 10, 2015 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

I would start writing, and then say, "This is no good. No good at all." Does that sound familiar? In an interview in April's The Writer, playwright Christopher Durang explains how he coped with … Continue reading >>

Get Close to your Readers through Point of View

February 4, 2015 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

In any story, there’s a narrator that is separate from the writer. Point of view concerns how the narrator tells the story, and this will determine how close the relationship between the narrator and … Continue reading >>

Seven Magic Elephants of Creativity ~ Margo LaGattuta

September 7, 2011 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

I Vacuum, Therefore I Am: Magic was in the air in a crowded coffeehouse 18 years ago when I first heard poet Margo LaGatutta read. Her poem, “I Vacuum, Therefore I Am,” gave me goose … Continue reading >>

A Story Best Told in Third Person

August 7, 2011 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

The struggle over POV is real Have you ever struggled over what point-of-view is going to work best for your narrator? I recently changed a novel manuscript from first person POV (I) to third … Continue reading >>

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