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Chiseled in Rock Tuesday: Characters who take control of your novel

August 16, 2011 By: Patricia

I’m over at Chiseled in Rock today with a post about how my characters tried to wrest control of my novel away from me and totally messed up my plot.

By the way, if you live in the U.S., there’s still time to get yourself in the running for the two writers’ market books Northern Colorado Writers is giving away on their Facebook page. All you need to do to enter is answer the Friday question posted on August 12th.

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  1. Ella says

    August 16, 2011 at 8:32 am

    Sounds like a fascinating post; I will stop by! Hope your day is going well~

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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