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Meg Howald

WRITING INTIMACY |1

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began." -Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina In...

Meg Howald

THE WRITER'S HOOK

The summer women gathered each day as if childhood locked them in a playground, but that summer one of them stayed, a faded ghost no one...

Meg Howald

Intense Negotiations

"Conflict is the beginning of Consciousness" – Esther Harding Dangerous conflicts present threats to security which lead into intense...

Meg Howald

Danger and Release

'Conflict creates character; crisis defines it.' - - Steven V. Thulon Conflict can involve two irreconcilable thoughts or ideas,...

Meg Howald

Emotional Momentum

“No tears in the writer; no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer; no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost How does a writer...

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Do You Agree with Kurt Vonnegut

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” - Kurt...

Meg Howald

Narrative Voice - a Difficult Choice

The omniscient third person narrator can simultaneously unfold a variety of actions and speeches related to more than one character. They...

Meg Howald

Real People

After giving a book talk in my writing class, a student asked if the characters and events in my novel were real because I talked like I...