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Pushing Past the Cliché by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

No writer wants to write a work riddled with clichés consciously, but how does one avoid them and stay true to the tropes of their genre to meet readers’ expectations? Bestselling Sci-fi author David Van Dyke, who has sold more than 400,000 copies of his novels, defines that the difference between a trope verse cliché: …

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Manifesting the Future: The Unexpected Result of Novel Writing through Trauma by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

Devastation rippled through my family like a tornado when my parents divorced. We were a public family in a small rural area full of potato fields and town gossips. Throw in rumors of an affair, and add a big dose of religion, and that was a recipe for thick judgment. The assessment was aimed at …

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When Life Gets in the Way of Writing by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

You want to write, but unfortunately, at the moment, you have a life. A very demanding one. One of those kinds of life’s where you don’t know how to squeeze in more writing time, and you are too attached to your sleep to give it up. I have one of those lives, too. I stopped …

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Prioritize Your Writing in 2018 by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

Happy 2018, everyone! I hope your year has launched with a great start. It’s almost impossible in our culture, at least in America, to have January come around and not at least think about goal setting. New Year’s resolution is easily one of USA’s favorite pastimes. Breaking those very same goals in February, or sooner, …