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Tag: Martha Brockenbrough

Grammar and Usage and Pie, Oh My

March 28, 2018 A. B. Westrick 8 Comments

I love talking craft—character development, plot, point of view, pacing, setting, dialogue. But hey, when a reader can’t get into…

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Filed under: apple pie, Diana Hacker, Get a Grip on your Grammar, grammar, Kris Spisak, Martha Brockenbrough, Perfect English Grammar, revision, Rules for Writers, Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, Things that Make Us [Sic], writing

Write with wonder

January 29, 2017 A. B. Westrick 6 Comments

In a July 2016 article in Toronto’s Metro News, writer Richard Crouse recounts a joke told by world-class cellist Yo-Yo…

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Filed under: childhood, craft, emotional truth, fiction, Jane Kurtz, Martha Brockenbrough, MFA, process, scenes, story, Streaming Movies Right, The Music of Strangers, VCFA, wonder, writing, Yo Yo Ma

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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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