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To Theme or Not to Theme

Posted on by kenkuhlken Posted in Writers and Writing

To Theme or Not to Theme My new novel, The Good Know Nothing, scheduled for summer 2014 from Poisoned Pen Press, not only has an overall theme, it uses the theme as its title. Being so forthcoming has concerned me,…

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Fun

Posted on by kenkuhlken Posted in Writers and Writing

I was hanging out with writer friends when someone suggested that the best move we could make was to, at the appropriate time, put aside writing for a few weeks or months and devote ourselves to promotion. Afterward, we could…

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Imagine

Posted on by kenkuhlken Posted in Writers and Writing

“What we have is a crisis of imagination.” That’s a quote from Warren Buffett’s son Peter, a writer of music, in an article called “The Charitable Industrial Complex”. It’s about the capitalist mindset of philanthropists who spend their lives making…

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Give It Up?

Posted on by kenkuhlken Posted in Writers and Writing

I was finishing draft five or six of a novel and wondering how many times more I would go through and make changes, when I realized I had best give it up or I might still be working on it…

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The Path to Fame and Fortune

Posted on by kenkuhlken Posted in Writers and Writing

Through a lot of years writing and teaching writing, I have noticed that to earn a living as a writer of fiction, we should adhere to this simple formula: Get born and/or raised with a moderate or better gift for…

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