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We’re told that to create an engaging story we need to know what motivates our characters. What do they want? What do they long for? What’s at stake ? “Motivation, based on a character’s beliefs, family, and environmental and cultural...

Published Fri, Dec 30 2011 8:53 AM by Sarah C. Lange

Filed under: memoir, characters, fiction, craft, creative nonfiction, plot

Beach reads we recommend

Janet Maslin of The New York Times offers a great article on recent “guilt-free” beach reads . She calls summer “the time to stop lying about what you read for fun.” With that in mind, we at The Writer drew up a list of our own...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 2:57 PM by Sarah C. Lange

Filed under: memoir, notable books, fiction, nonfiction

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Earlier this week I read in The Paris Review a fascinating interview with Mary Karr, author of the bestselling and critically praised memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry and, most recently, Lit . Susan Cheever called Karr's latest "the best book...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 4:03 PM by Sarah C. Lange

Filed under: writing process, memoir

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