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An archive of all posts concerning Jeremiah's Last Call story development.
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Over the millennia of prehistory, the modern Nile River is at least the fifth major version of itself to have flowed from the Ethiopian highlands through North Africa and down to the Great Western …
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Moving beyond the opening of a novel and completing its first chapter, although it must be done, can be emotional and stressful, like dropping your child off on the first day of school. Is he or she …
There’s nothing more important, or difficult, than crafting a novel’s first sentence. Except perhaps for the sentence that follows. Charles Dickens, however, often made it look easy. Consider Dickens’ …
Some advice can be sound but useless, especially when it comes to writing. Consider the following six simple "rules" for writing the perfect novel. Write an engaging first sentence.From that, build …
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Would it be a mistake for the prophet Jeremiah to be the principal character in a novel about him? Probably, almost certainly, yes. The reasons not to do so spring from the story's genre, biblical …
Maybe you have read Dan Brown's wildly popular novel, The DaVinci Code, published in 2003. Perhaps, instead of reading the book, you took in the movie. You may have even enjoyed one or both. After …
