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I'll confess that most of my knowledge of plotting is from field research, mostly reading and watching mysteries since Nancy Drew. I think I'm better at creating characters. Or characters are better at finding me than story arcs, depending on how, or if, you think the...

Last May I started writing a novel. That was a surprise. My dream of being a writer was to be a poet. Then it was to be a fairly obscure blogger with a small but dedicated following. Then it was to be a memoirist. Then this novel slammed into me out of nowhere when I...