Sue Harrison, 2012, Lake Superior State University Evening News Photograph Way back in the mid-1980s, I was a young mother who had just completed her first novel – Mother Earth Father Sky. I was receiving enough rejection letters from publishers and agents to wallpaper our living room. To shore up my sagging self-esteem, I decided…
WooHoo! Wild Word Friday! I’m doing something a little different today for Wild Word Friday. We ‘re going to talk about the business of banishing words. Say what? Since 1976, Lake Superior State University, a little college located on the eastern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has been banishing words. The brainchild of PR genius Bill Rabe,…
When I present at writers’ workshops, I often quote that ancient Chinese curse,”May you live in interesting times.” My point is that, although it is NOT a good thing for real people to live during interesting times (wars, famines, earthquakes), it IS a very good thing for your characters to live during interesting times, because interesting times are exciting. I’m not…
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