John Spencer Perry

Paperback Writer

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@SusanSavageLee1 College year one, second day of class, the prof dissected my first journalistic effort on the overhead projector. Lesson: You report, you print, it will be read.

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@nathanbaugh27 Magpie Murders

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@Mary_ork Writing. Drafting part three of book #6

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@SusanSavageLee1 Not certain characters, just female characters for obvious reasons. Which is why my wife and sister are the first editors for all my WIP.

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Ten questions an author must answer:
Whose story is it?
What is your character's flaw?
What is the inciting incident?
What does your character want?
What obstacles are in the character’s way?
Why should we care?
What's at stake?
What do they learn?
How and why?
How does it end?

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@SusanSavageLee1 Telling loved ones that you're going down that rabbit hole again, only coming up for air and food and drink at end of day. Then hanging the "Keep Out" sign on the entrance.

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@ThatEricAlper Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Stand By Me, Princess Bride

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@ThatEricAlper Open a window. Three cheers.

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@SusanSavageLee1 As a journalist, believing that being accurate and reporting the truth was the same as being convincing.

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@Softykjr Defensive gems.

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@Mary_ork Back writing again after walking away for months from first two chapters written last year. Somehow the pilot light reignited.

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@SusanSavageLee1 Power is presented through a character's actions and words. Privilege is a judgment that authors should leave to the reader. In fictional novels, that is.

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@SusanSavageLee1 Thanks. I have to repeat it often to myself. On another note, I find your post among the most interesting and informative Xs for writers. Keep it coming.

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@SusanSavageLee1 Check that. Just remembered that I had a Realtor buddy search the sale records in a Palm Springs neighborhood to find the house owned in 1969 by William Bendix of The Life Of Riley.

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@SusanSavageLee1 Researching the type of handgun my main character would have used in the late 1960s.

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@Nickyshearsby22 Agree. Not gaining useful or interesting information.

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@AuthorGFAllen Exclamation points

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@SusanSavageLee1 Fewer words

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@PamelaChelin The honors keep coming. Congrats.