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From Ideas to Outline

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you will have seen me take all sorts of ideas through their paces. If you’re curious as to how I get rolling, I’m teaching a workshop on Forward Motion through August … Continue reading →

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Just when I thought I was busy enough…

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Gak! I have been attacked, sneak attacked at that. I’ve been pushing on so many things that my life has come to resemble a tornado, touching down on one project just long enough to leave disaster in its wake before … Continue reading →

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May Challenge: Story A Day and Some (Part 6)

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Not quite an analysis, but here’s a blow by blow description of writing my last three stories. I got home from BayCon (which involves a five hour drive through the mountains) on Monday night with three stories still to go … Continue reading →

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May Challenge: Story A Day and Some (Part 5)

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Story 7 – Life on the Line (Speculative Fiction) I have been doing Story a Day since 2003. Some years have been easy, some hard, and some, like this one, just filled with too much other stuff to be able … Continue reading →

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May Challenge: Story A Day and Some (Part 4)

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Story 6 – Prospects (Science Fiction) What did I learn from this story? Well, if you’d asked me two hours ago, I would have said that I could NOT write a short story based on something as thin as this even … Continue reading →

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