Author: meltaylor
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Making people up.
Character creation is one of my favorite things about writing fiction. It’s a two-part process, really. First comes the inspiration, then comes the development. Inspiration is easy enough. I need […]
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Me vs. the Mafia
Let me preface this story with a mental image: I am 5’3″ and about 150 pounds, but I’m about 20 pounds overweight. I am not impressive. When I was 20, […]
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Musicality.
I guess I’ve had a really weird musical education. I didn’t realize it until my band was playing a birthday party, and a friend of the birthday boy wanted to […]
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Diversity in my fiction.
I’m really not as good at this as I could be. Part of that is my own blindness, and part of that is the community I currently live in — […]
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The course of plot.
I read a very interesting blog post the other day that a favorite author of mine shared on her Facebook page. It was entitled, “I don’t want to play the […]
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Skateboards and teeth.
Here’s something that actually happened to me one day. I was on a walk with my sister on a drizzly day. We walked past the local high school, where there […]
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Author level up!
I’m trying to, anyway. I keep hearing how the important thing in this authoring game is to just keep working on getting better and better, at whatever pace you can, […]
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Finish it!
I’ve noticed that beginning writers tend to have this one thing they all do. Okay, there’re several things they all seem to do, but I’m just going to get weird […]
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Penguins are awesome.
No lie. So when I was about thirteen, I went to visit my father in California. He asked if I wanted to do anything special in California while I was […]
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I’m just me.
Just in case you were looking for some sort of professional author with a slick look and fashionable turn out who’s eloquent and interesting, I hate to tell you. It’s […]
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