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Discovery Comes During Writing, Not Before

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By Kent Sanders

In the fiction-writing community, there are two terms thrown around quite a bit: plotters and pantsers. Plotters are writers who know the whole plot of ...

Curiosity Resurrected the Cat

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By Kent Sanders

You’ve heard the saying “curiosity killed the cat.” The phrase has been around in some form or another for hundreds of years and is meant ...

Become a Person of Interest

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By Kent Sanders

In the law-enforcement community, a person of interest is a phrase used to describe someone who may be involved in an ongoing investigation or connected ...

Go Ahead, Cross the Streams

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By Kent Sanders

There is a fascinating scene in the original 1984 Ghostbuster movie that has an interesting application for writers. The three ghostbusters, played by Bill Murray, ...

When was the Last Time You Were Astonished?

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By Kent Sanders

We live in a world where miraculous things happen every day. Of course, most of these things don’t seem miraculous to us. They seem ordinary. ...

What Should You Write About? Try This.

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By Kent Sanders

Everyone feels writer’s block sometimes. The next time you aren’t sure what to write about, try combining two things you love. If you love teaching ...

Inspiration is a Shy Fellow

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By Kent Sanders

We’ve all heard it before (and probably said it): “I’m just not feeling inspired today.” There might be a hundred reasons why we don’t feel ...

It’s Hard to Be God

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By Kent Sanders

Whatever you think about the origins of the universe, one thing seems certain: the universe started as a kind of blank slate that is now ...