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Tag: malcolm gladwell

Love your protagonist

October 28, 2016 A. B. Westrick 6 Comments

This month I attended two writers’ conferences—James River Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional—and…

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Filed under: character, craft, fiction, James River Writers, lin oliver, malcolm gladwell, protagonist, revision, SCBWI, story, writing

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