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D.C. Lozar

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I've traveled Europe and the Middle East, canoed the Everglades, and spelunked through caves that rivaled Tom Sawyer's. As a medical student and resident, I worked in trauma surgery at Cook County, Chicago (the inspiration for the TV series E.R.), and then tried my hand at Family Practice in the rural backwoods of Massachusetts. Married to the love of my life with two talented children, I moved to the West Coast to practice medicine and write young adult fiction. I create stories about what it's like to be an outsider because I believe the fear of rejection resonates with all of us. My books are filled with strange lands, robots, and funky monsters, because the one thing a misunderstood loner does better than anyone else is save the world. ...more

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Plot Rules Work Best if You Tailor Them.

Plot Rules Work Best if You Break Them.

Tailoring Your Plot Points to

The Plot

Joseph Campbell famously dissected the Hero's journey into specific plot points, a bit like how a tailor might pin the cloth for a suit, and left it to his students to craft their stories using these guideposts.

To paraphrase and condense what I've learned from Mr. Campbell, Shakespeare, Blake Snyder, David Trottier, and Read more of this blog post »
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“I felt a hard knot untangle in my chest. It was a relief, a worry that I had not known I had, dissolving like a soap bubble on pavement. We”
D.C. Lozar, Cyberweird Stories: A Contagious Collection of Short Stories and Poems

“Make good art.”
Neil Gaiman

“So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.”
Neil Gaiman

“Creativity takes courage. ”
Henri Matisse

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato

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