My young writing partner Elizabeth often used to ask me if she was writing something the right way. I responded that there is no right way to write. Sure, there are rules and conventions that help more often than not, but when it comes to writing, you do what comes natural. I can’t know, but I suspect, this is one of the reasons it is so difficult to get published these days. I do know publishing professionals, and they all say that publishers want works “like” those of a best selling author. As close to a sure thing as a publisher can get. True creativity, however, blazes trails. I enjoy fiction that I have a difficult time classifying. Genres, after all, are guidelines to help us categorize written works. Sometimes, however, the categories just don’t match the reality. I often write by phrases. Phrases come to me—often at the worst possible time—that seem to be the basis for a story. Phrase gets added to phrase, light ...
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