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Review: The Art & Craft of Story

Put Victoria Mixon’s books on the top of your writing craft to-read list.   Mixon’s second Art & Craft of Writing manual takes the outstanding content of the first and brings it to a formidably high level. Simply put, the two books together would easily serve as brilliant texts for …

Hook, plot and sinker

A little bonus post today. I hope you enjoy. Most weeks, I plan on sticking with my Flash Fiction Wednesday posts and Friday or weekend post on writing and related topics. To open: K.M. Weiland on Hooks The second part of K.M. Weiland’s The Secrets of Story Structure—which you should …

Girls in Disguise

I recently finished two young adult (YA) novels whose protagonists are girls who disguise themselves as boys to join the British Navy; both books having been written by men. Both are exceptionally fun reads, but handle the girl-as-boy element very differently.