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Read Your Draft Out Loud

April 30, 2014 A. B. Westrick 6 Comments

I emailed a new novel to my agent two days ago. Done! Finished. At least for now. If she deems it…

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Filed under: craft, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, manuscript, metaphor, process, reading out loud, revision, Scrivener, story, structure, writing

Organic writing

May 23, 2011 A. B. Westrick Leave a comment

Last week I popped Katherine Applegate‘s middle-grade novel in verse, Home of the Brave, into my car’s CD player, and…

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Filed under: metaphor, middle-grade, protagonist, verse, writing

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