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Creating memorable characters with a go-to excuse by Lani Longshore

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Over the years, I’ve read lots of books and articles about creating memorable characters. Early on, the advice focused on visualizing your character and considering how gender, height, weight, coloring, and recognizable facial markings could have affected that character’s life. Later, it became fashionable to think of fashion. What did it mean that your character […]

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April 6, 2013 Robert Dugoni Workshop: Creating Plots and Playing God

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We are proud to sponsor a workshop conducted by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni, “Creating Plots and Playing God” on Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:30-4:30 p.m., at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard in Pleasanton. Check in begins at 12:00 p.m. Snacks and beverages provided during break. Does your novel or story keep

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Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Bringing Sensuality to the Page

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A contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines and anthologies, Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a poet, travel writer, novelist and workshop leader. She has served as a literary arts panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, and was a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber was named

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