The Writer 10.2019

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writermag.com • The Writer | 1 FEATURES October 2019 Volu m e 132 Nu m be r 10 DEPARTMENTS 8 From the Front Lines The doctor is ...

2 | The Writer • October 2019 FROM THE EDITOR NICKI PORTER Keep writing, Nicki Porter Senior Editor @nickimporter The haunting s ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 3 The Writer (ISSN 0043-9517) is published monthly by Madavor Media, LLC, 25 Braintree Hill Office ...

4 | The Writer • October 2019 I ONCE WROTE TO LIVE. Now I walk to write to live. Those extra words entered my life after my head ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 5 “Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, ...

6 | The Writer • October 2019 questions and listen. We’re all playing Tag, and I’m It. Sometimes my recent past roars back, dema ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 7 “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” —J. R. R. ...

8 | The Writer • October 2019 FROM THE FRONT LINES BY YI SHUN LAI E very once in a while, I make the colossal mistake of read- i ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 9 things with one of those grabber claws for help. (The entry I wrote the night my mom got robbed i ...

10 | The Writer • October 2019 FREELANCE SUCCESS BY PETE CROATTO W hen I started doing the ‘I don’t get out of bed for less than ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 11 $650 instead of being satisfied with $350. And she got it. “I was surprised at how easy it was,” ...

12 | The Writer • October 2019 fictionalize hometown HOW TO fictionalize YOUR hometown WORLD-BUILDING IS RARELY SIMPLE. DOES DRA ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 13 considered a perfect fit for the novel’s mood. But as I pushed through the first several thousan ...

14 | The Writer • October 2019 as raw and pure as your own home- town. Your family and friends might still live there. You have ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 15 name must make sense to your home- town’s region. Take Missouri, for example. We’re notorious na ...

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How to craft the villain your hero deserves. By Jessica Stilling writermag.com • The Writer | 17 ANATOMY OF AN ANTAGONIST ...

18 | The Writer • October 2019 but until the moment when Kylo Ren (spoiler alert) does a complete character 180 in The Last Jedi ...