Candy Korman's Blog

My new Monster Meditation explores the benefits of reading outside your familiar genres.

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TIME plays a huge role in storytelling. My new Monster Meditation is about how time can be compressed to move a story along faster.

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Visit a haunted hospital—check out my new Monster Meditation on Candy's Monsters blog!

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The phrase "based on a true story" draws readers in, but it also presents special challenges to writers. I'm exploring the true/fiction conundrum in my new Monster Meditation on Candy's Monsters blog.

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How and why cats, dogs, snakes and other pets get their names reveals a great deal about the human involved. This holds for real life and fiction, too.

Would you like to share a pet naming story? Check out the new Monster Meditation and share your stories!

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How strong is your writing?
Do you sprinkle your text with weak words?

It's something all writers should think about!

My new Monster Meditation is about those pesky adverbs and other words that weaken statements.

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What is it about dystopian fiction that draws so many readers? I'm exploring the apocalyptic appeal of the end of the world on Candy's Monsters Blog.

Check out this new Monster Meditation and chime in with your favorite doomsday.


http://www.candysmonsters.com/apocaly...

My new Monster Meditation is all about how technology has changed storytelling.

Paper checks, answering machines and typewriter ribbons—the way we conduct business & communicate has undergone radical changes and this is reflected in how we tell stories.

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Snap Snap Snap... taking photo notes with my phone.

Does this work? Will this replace notebooks?

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Check out my new Monster Meditation on Candy's Monsters Blog.

My new Monster Meditation is about Truth & Fiction...
Is truth stranger? They are both pretty strange!

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