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Frog Your Words

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

It’s really cold in my office lately, so I decided to crochet the yarn a friend gave me for Christmas into a pair of wrist warmers for work. The pattern

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Plant a Garden of Curiosity Seeds

Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

One of the favorite writing terms that I picked up over the past year is “curiosity seeds.” Curiosity seeds are exactly like they sound like: little questions sprinkled into the

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Sharpening Tools Against Writers Block

Posted on December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 by Stace Dumoski
Foggy hillsides

For me, the idea of resistance is an important one. As someone who struggles constantly to cross the border from dreaming to accomplishing, being able to conceive of that the struggle as something external and inevitable is reassuring.

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How to Write a More Compelling Villain

Posted on November 18, 2022November 30, 2022 by Stace Dumoski
faint image of a shadowy person with text that reads Who Lurks in the Shadow? The key to creating a more compelling villain has more to do with your protagonist than you think.

As a fantasy novelist and editor, I have spent a lot of time reading books and writing sites  to learn as much as I can about my craft (and trying

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Get In the Action

Posted on October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 by Stace Dumoski

At my writers’ group last night, we reviewed two pieces that suffered from variations of the same flaw: trying to portray characters by having the narrator tell you all about

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Stace Dumoski

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