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Master your genre…After you figure out what it is

Robert McKee, in his screenwriting book Story, challenges the writer to see where their work fits: Each writer’s homework is first to identify his genre, then research its governing practices. And there’s no escaping these tasks. We’re all genre writers. McKee’s suggests it’s the overarching genre that keeps us going, not the particular ideas: So, …

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Coffee Break No. 11 – John Connolly and The Seed of a Story

[tweetmeme source=”jjdanz” only_single=false service=ht.ly] Responding to a comment here on the blog this morning (Thanks to Sarah Wedgbrow over at Folding Fields for jogging my memory), I was reminded of John Connolly‘s novel The Black Angel, the novel I was reading when I decided to write in earnest. Connolly’s story was dark and contained supernatural …

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