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Your Subconscious Wants to Flirt With You. Are you Ready?

Ten or Twenty Ideas at a Time Howard Nemerov, author of Journal of the Fictive Life, was quoted as saying this about ideas: The reason it takes him “so long between one fiction and the next” is “not not ‘having … Continue reading

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Imagination and Inspiration – Which is What, and Works How?

Fire and Fuel Beginning novelists are often confused about imagination and inspiration, unsure of the specific roles each one plays and unsure of how the two interrelate. Think of them in this context: imagination can be compared to fire, while … Continue reading

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