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Sample Extract (first pages of novel)

About the Author:

• Biography and contact e-mail address
• About the Author: Photographs

Writing Advice Columns:

1. Introduction and list of articles
2. Where to Start?
3. Don't Get It Right the First Time
4. Beginners' Four Faults
5. Margaret, Maggie, Marge and Meg: Problems with names and how to avoid them
6. Loving Your Characters Too Much
7. What is Conflict?
8. Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!
9. Not Stopping the Reader: Avoiding the stumbling blocks that break the spell of your story
10. A, B and C Characters
11. Describing Your Characters Through Their Actions
12. Explaining Too Much: Why Less is More
13. Description: What's it for?
14. The Art of the Unspoken: Saying more by describing less
15. Dialogue: The best action
16. Historical Fiction: Who rules, researcher or story-teller?
17. The Doldrums: When the wind leaves your sails
18. Rewriting
19. I Am Your Editor: Submitting your novel
20. The Writer's Notebook or Let's not really write
21. The Three Abouts
22. The Strenuous Marriage, part 1 Careful Observation
23. The Strenuous Marriage, part 2 of 3 Careful Imagingation
24. The Strenuous Marriage, part 3 of 3 Strict Toiling with Language
25. Details, Details
26. Style: The life and death of a writer
27. Microwave Writing
28. Everyone is Right: Creating Fundamental Motivation
29. Plot and Narrative
30. Plagiarism
31. Are You a Writer? Take the Quiz

• Opening Setting
• About WW II: a brief history
• About Women in WW II: a summary
• About the Women's Army Corps: a short history
• About Gays and Lesbians in WW II
• About the Holocaust and the Nazi oppression of minorities
• About Refugees and forcible repatriation
• Resources 1: Books and links about WW II and the Resistance
• Resources 2: Books and Links about Women, and Lesbians and Gays, in WW II
• More Resources 3: Books and Links about the Nazi Persecution of Jews and other groups, about repatriation, and other subjects

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