Meg Howald
FIND ME, BEN
A short book teaser can reach a global market of book lovers. Here's Find Me Ben, a teaser for Someone Died In My House.
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Meg Howald
Apr 261 min read
BEN'S WAR
Create short, catchy book teasers to promote on social media. Here's Ben's War - Someone Died In My House.
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Meg Howald
Apr 241 min read
BACK TO HOOKING
The kid knew he'd make history when he ran away, got bitten and morphed. Create an irresistible character who wins readers devotion for...
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Meg Howald
Feb 261 min read
DISCOVERY - BURY OR REVEAL
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible...
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Meg Howald
Feb 121 min read
SEVERED (a writing prompt for you)
Severed limbs leave memories on the host flesh, in muscle and tissue and nerve endings, like a ring sliding into place on a hand that...
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Meg Howald
Feb 111 min read
WHAT IS IT ABOUT A HOUSE?
This house is like an atlas in my mind - its elevations, fingerprinted plaster, broken bones and bruises. Just some 'word bait' to run...
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Meg Howald
Feb 111 min read
THE WINDOW BLEEDS STEAM
The window bleeds steam from your breath. Leave if you want to. Your breath will never be that hot again. Some 'word bait' for you to...
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Meg Howald
Feb 101 min read
READERS IN LOVE
Here's what I tell my creative writing students: Soul-driven stories are only as mind-bending as the characters in them. Characters...
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Meg Howald
Jan 141 min read
STORY IS EVERYTHING - CHARACTERS ARE EVERYTHING ELSE
Who would have thought that these two young lovers would find a different ending - this ending: It won't come as a surprise if I said...
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Meg Howald
Jan 131 min read
SPACES WE LIVE IN - WE, YOU and....and...THEY
No one wants to live in a space that is becoming a war zone, becoming unrecognizable, and out of control. For my protagonist, Ben...
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Meg Howald
Jan 131 min read
TIC-TOC TIC-TOC
"Nothing maintains the pace in a thriller like a ticking clock. Give the main characters a deadly deadline, a threat that hangs over...
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Meg Howald
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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