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Giving Effective Feedback to Creative Writers
Feedback

Giving Effective Feedback to Creative Writers

Your writing partner has asked for some feedback on her novel. Now what?

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
5 min read
Rainy Writing Day Adventure
Activity

Rainy Writing Day Adventure

We stood around like loons scribbling in our notebooks and scrutinizing the piece of art for about 20 minutes.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
4 min read
Whose Story Is It?
Point of View

Whose Story Is It?

The values, goals, and information known by the storyteller influence their narrative.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
Urban Fantasy
Genre

Urban Fantasy

Even supernatural beings must cope with problems like lead paint and aging transportation infrastructure.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
4 min read
Magical Realism
Genre

Magical Realism

Within the bounds of this genre, I discovered a specialized candy shop of ideas: Glass jars brimming with bright gumballs of fabulism, boiled sweets of the marvelous real, sugar whorls of the baroque, lollipops of Latin literary forms, and caramel creams of German art critique.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
Basking in the Glow
Accomplish

Basking in the Glow

I wrote 50k words in a month.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
2 min read
Hitting the Wall
Accomplish

Hitting the Wall

Since I am new to NaNoWriMo, I didn’t know that the struggle of week two is a well-discussed phenomenon, so I tumbled into the abyss completely unprepared.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
4 min read
Oh no — NaNoWriMo!
Writing

Oh no — NaNoWriMo!

I have officially lost my mind.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
2 min read
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