Christina Baker Kline's A Writing Year
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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!”
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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 …
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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
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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
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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
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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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