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I'm not the typical author. I didn't always enjoy reading or writing. While in school, I found it to be a chore I'd just as soon skip. I would rather have been daydreaming, my favorite past time. It wasn’t until I grew up and didn’t have to, that I realized reading was fun. I soon discovered that reading fueled my daydreaming. So, remembering a short story I'd written in high school, I began imagining expanding that story into a book. Before long I found I had loads of ideas for not just the short story but other books and stories as well. Fast forward a few years, a lot of studying about writing, practicing my writing, studying some more, taking classes from people who knew what they were doing, studying and practicing yet more, and ta-dah ...more

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Lesa Howard I hate this question. I usually gush like a blubbering moron when someone asks it, barely putting together coherent sentences. I think it's because in…moreI hate this question. I usually gush like a blubbering moron when someone asks it, barely putting together coherent sentences. I think it's because in the beginning of writing a new novel it's like falling in love. Everything about it is scrumptious.

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Tired of being a pawn and everyone's meal ticket, a teenage girl determines to break free of her derelict family and their unscrupulous ways.(less)
Lesa Howard Daydreaming, and tons of it. A long drive, which keeps me confined so I can think without distractions, can often get me over a hump.
Average rating: 3.66 · 82 ratings · 65 reviews · 1 distinct work
Phantom's Dance

3.66 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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More of My Poetry Diet

In my last post, I wrote about using poetry in my creative writing classrooms, and how that changed my fiction writing. In this article, I will share an example of a poem that can be used for tightening up one’s prose, developing a character or setting, or simply for having fun. It’s called a cinquain. Cinquains are five-line poems, there are several styles to choose from. Some use rhymes, some re Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 03, 2018 06:43 Tags: fiction, free-verse, poetry, prose, writing
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“After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there was a schedule to be followed and I was so far behind I’d never get caught up.”
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“But you don’t have to let this define you anymore. Leave it here -” he indicated the stage “- where it can fuel rather than fell you.”
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“Sometimes the stage terrifies me,” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.”

Solitude can be freeing,” he said.”
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Tracey Thanks so much for the friend invite Lesa!! I look forward to reading Phantom's Dance ! :)


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