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The Liebster Award

December 14, 2011 A. B. Westrick Leave a comment

A little love came my way recently. Richmonder Marci Rich, who writes The Midlife Second Wife, nominated my blog for…

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Filed under: craft, creativity, emotional truth, Liebster Award, VCFA, writing

Raising the stakes

November 19, 2011 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

At the mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference last month, keynoter Han Nolan said, “When a story scares me so much that I…

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Filed under: character, craft, han nolan, process, SCBWI, scenes, writing

Emotional seeds for stories

October 10, 2011 A. B. Westrick 9 Comments

This past Saturday while speaking on a panel at the James River Writers Conference, I choked up and found myself…

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Filed under: character, craft, emotional truth, historical, kkk, klan, literature, prejudice, process, Southern fiction, writing

Details, details, details

September 20, 2011 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

The smoky odor from a too-hot furnace…a hint of honeysuckle…the racket of bullfrogs—these were the details that brought last week’s…

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Filed under: craft, process, Robert Olen Butler, VCFA, writer's block, writing

Non-linear writing

August 1, 2011 A. B. Westrick 2 Comments

While I was drafting this post, my son peered over my shoulder, and said, “Mom, TL:DR: too long; didn’t read.”…

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Filed under: craft, process, revision, VCFA, writing

The difference between content and process

April 30, 2011 A. B. Westrick Leave a comment

In mid-March, as I staffed the James River Writers (JRW) table at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville,…

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Filed under: arc, books, conference, craft, historical, literature, pace, plot, process, scenes, structure, voice, writing

For the love of Vemont College of Fine Arts

March 30, 2011 abwestrick 2 Comments

Voice. Sympathetic characters. Narrative pace. Dialogue tags.  Emotional arcs. These are the sorts of topics we tackled at Vermont College…

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Filed under: craft, critique, dialogue, low-residency, pace, theme, VCFA, voice, writing

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Articles, Interviews, & Podcasts:

Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I confess that I’ve stopped beating myself up over my process. It is what it is. March 20, 2019

Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I talk about setting priorities in my writing life. February 20, 2019

Podcast: Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge, where I ramble about my writing process, including how I conquer writer’s block. January 23, 2019

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