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Blog Name: Christina Baker Kline's A Writing Year
Url: http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com/
Language: English
Topics: Writers' Tips, The Creative Process, Real Life
Description: Writing a novel is hard, and some days I find I still don't know what I'm doing. But over the years I've learned a few things. With my fourth novel, BIRD IN HAND, coming out in August, and another novel due in a year, I'm going to blog about what motivates and inspires me, what tips and tricks I use to keep going, and how I deal with the unexpected.
Popularity: 18 Followers

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The Problem of the Unsympathetic Character
Several days ago I received an email from a woman who’d recently read my latest novel, Bird in Hand.  She mentioned that she appreciated my “honesty” – she liked that my characters had “definite re...
The Problem of the Unsympathetic Character
Several days ago I received an email from a woman who’d recently read my latest novel, Bird in Hand.  She mentioned that she appreciated my “honesty” – she liked that my characters had “definite re...
How Much of the Book is True?
Sheila Kohler, author of the new novel Becoming Jane Austen, offers a nuanced answer to this perennial question:Shortly after the publication of my first novel, The Perfect Place, my husband and I ...
Three Ways to Push Through When You’re Stuck
Writer Julie Metz offers some hard-won advice:Like many of you, I am working on a new writing project, a novel. What made me think I could do this, anyway? But here I am, too far in to let go, comm...
“People Don’t Do Such Things!”
The writer Bonnie Friedman considers what it means to create ‘realistic’ fictional characters:“People don’t do such things!” is the last line of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler — words cried out by the scanda...
To Tell the Truth …
Three great writers consider the concept of “truth” as it relates to the creative process:“The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his b...
What’s the Big Idea?
How do you come up with an idea that’s big enough to sustain a novel or memoir?  And how do you know when you’ve got it?As a teacher of creative writing, I get asked this question a lot – and as a ...
The Novel Terminable and Interminable
Bonnie Friedman writes about the lure of (and cure for) the endless novel:I just finished my first novel.  This isn’t the first novel I tried to write.  Before publishing a book of essays and then ...
What a Story Intends for Itself
Lorrie Moore is one of my favorite authors (Like Life and Birds of America, her story collections, are on my shelf of prized books), but I did not love her new novel, The Gate at the Stairs.  I fou...
A Little-Known Occupational Hazard Affecting Writers
Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project, talks about the thrill and the perils of trying something new:There’s a common occupational hazard that affects writers, ...

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