Whenever I think about italicizing a section of a novel, I ask myself if I really need to. If you're a good writer, your readers will "see" the...
Writing is everything to me. It is my calling, my life, my breath, my blood and water. I am no one without writing. So why is it that my...
For those whom it may concern, I am writing a novel (rather, majorly editing) that parallels the symbolism of the mockingbird in To Kill a...
Check out Manic by Terri Cheney, a psychologist AND bi-polar patient. One of my favorites for psychology also, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield...
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I understand completely. I had the same problem for a while--I just simply created male characters, and to avoid any female characters, I created...
I don't think it's necessarily insensitive, I think the story just focused from a different perspective. If the article's main point was on how...
I agree about the subtlety concept. No reader would feel as emotionally attached and/or interested in the main character than if the reader found...
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