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...
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Meg Howald
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Meg Howald
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
Intense Negotiations
"Conflict is the beginning of Consciousness" – Esther Harding Dangerous conflicts present threats to security which lead into intense...
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Meg Howald
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
Danger and Release
'Conflict creates character; crisis defines it.' - - Steven V. Thulon Conflict can involve two irreconcilable thoughts or ideas,...
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Meg Howald
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
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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Meg Howald
- Dec 1, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Meg Howald
- Dec 1, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Meg Howald
- Aug 14, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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