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Where To Start: How To Write the Exact Right Beginning of Your Story
ByMartha Alderson September 3, 2014

Pain shoots up from the bottom of her foot, enough so she limps and is forced to wear…

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2014 Your Year to Write a Story with a Plot
ByMartha Alderson January 6, 2014

Fall 2013, I cracked open a six-pack of local, organic brown eggs to find four double-yolks. If I…

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Starting a Story Too Early
ByMartha Alderson July 1, 2009

Remember, just because you write a scene does not mean the scene belongs in your story. We often…

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Writing for Ourselves. Writing for Others.
ByMartha Alderson January 14, 2009

Now on her third book, the writer moves away from herself. Memoir writers aren’t the only ones who…

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