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Proofreading: Make Word read to you

January 28, 2014July 25, 2014 Sara Thorn 2 Comments Writing Proofread, Text-to-speech, Word, Writing

Sometimes, writing is like laying a puzzle. You’ve got some of the pieces, and they’re clean and spotless. Others seem a bit murky, or plain

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Romantic Comedies to Love: Dan in Real Life

January 21, 2014July 25, 2014 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Romance, TV & Movies Movies, Romantic comedies

So after reading that fewer romantic comedies are getting made, I decided to spread the word about some of my favorites here on the blog.

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How the Battlestar Galactica board game can help your writing

January 7, 2014December 2, 2014 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Games, TV & Movies, Writing Battlestar Galactica, Board games, Writing

So I’m a big fan of board games, and fortunately so is my darling husband, which means we play a lot of them. What does

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End of 2013

December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Before and After the Wedding, Fantasy, Romance, The Binding, Writing 2013, reading, Writing

Well, 2013 is drawing to a close–I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I’m on vacation, which is just bliss I must say.

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How to quickly change problematic characters

December 17, 2013July 25, 2014 Sara Thorn 2 Comments Writing characters, ideas, Writing

The bread and butter of fiction is to create characters that take on a life of their own. Sometimes, though, those spur-of-the-moment actions break your

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Sympathy vs Empathy

December 10, 2013July 25, 2014 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Writing ideas, tortured characters, Writing

It’s very easy to sympathize with your own characters. You created them, and you know them more intimately than any character written by anybody else–everything

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First draft and editing–back at work on Before and After the Wedding

December 3, 2013December 3, 2013 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Before and After the Wedding, Romance, Writing Editing, ideas, Writing

It’s funny how each part of the writing process brings such different skills and benefits to it–and downsides too, I suppose. Having just experimented with

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Favorite romantic novels of 2013

November 26, 2013May 8, 2014 Sara Thorn 1 Comment Reading and Books, Romance 2013, books, Romance

Now that we’re getting close to the end of 2013, I thought I’d share some of my favorite romantic novels and novellas of the year.

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High-tech from the 60ies

November 19, 2013November 18, 2013 Sara Thorn 0 Comment TV & Movies Mission Impossible, Oldies, TV

  One of the things I like to do is watch older TV series. For one thing, they’re ideal for those TV dinners, as I’m

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How I invent characters

November 12, 2013July 25, 2014 Sara Thorn 0 Comment Fantasy, Romance, Writing characterizations, ideas, Writing

Characters are mysterious creatures, in a way, and I’m sure there are nearly as many ways to invent them as there are authors. For me,

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