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Jordan Rosenfeld

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Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the novels Fallout, Women in Red and Forged in Grace and seven books on the craft of writing, including the brand new Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing, How to Write a Page-Turner, the bestselling Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writer’s Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free. Her freelance writing has been published in hundreds of publications, including: The Atlantic, The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Salon, Scientific American, The Rumpus, Writer’s Digest Magazine, The Washington Post and many more. She is also a freelance manuscript editor, writing coach and teaches online classes. Jordanrosenfeld.net. She blogs about midlife, creativity and writing ...more

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“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.”
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“The audience needs an object of worship, a place to project their hopes and longings, an escape from the sad and tragic realities of their own lives. It's a symbiotic relationship.”
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“not going to do a lot of thinking and instead live in the realm of instinct: action and reaction”
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message 3: by Emma

Emma Thanks for the friend invite, Jordan. Nice to meet you. I'll be sure to check out your books.


message 2: by Susan (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:23AM)

Susan Henderson Jordan!

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message 1: by Lara (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:22AM)

Lara Ameen Hi, Jordan! Thanks for the invite to this site. It's pretty cool. I like it!

Just wanted to stop in quickly and say hello. I still can't believe you're finally getting a book published this Fall! That's amazing!! I'll have to buy it and then get your autograph! Can't wait to read it. ;)

I've been very, very busy! I'm in summer school right now at the community college and keeping VERY busy, but the first summer session is almost over and the 2nd summer session shouldn't be as bad. And I finished off the spring semester at community college with straight A's, which made me very happy! ;)

I've also kinda changed my major around a bit. I'm a Psychology major now with a double minor in Creative Writing and Disability Studies. Good stuff though. Psych is fun!

We'll have to catch up sometime! I have lots to tell ya!

*hugs* and take care,
~Lara


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