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Write What You Don’t Know

Posted on September 15, 2003 by TC Editors

A Pen In Each HandBy Beaver

Look over you work-in-progress. Have you written about something you don’t know? Try one or more of the ideas suggested in “Just Call Me Trickster” to make your character’s experience more authentic.

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