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Middle Class Mortality

Posted on 10/22/2011 by Jeff May

Middle Class Mortality Young man full of it,         at night After a few,        that was me. Did I drink…      too much? Could I see…      what was coming? I cycle the highway      Salvation Army clothes Tattering in the wind      bent wheels clacking Loose spokes, rusted fender,      what happened to my Lycra shorts? I work at Wal-Mart      my Phd in Philosophy I shoeshine on Wall Street      loose teeth … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction — Plot

Posted on 02/10/2011 by Jeff May

Note: “Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction” – blog posts derived from my popular “Finding Your Fiction” workshop in association with St. Louis Writers Workshop and St. Louis Writers Guild. Completed guide will be available as an ebook, likely on Smashwords. (Feedback, incisive or otherwise, welcome.) Section I Choosing plot over character is dangerous. Plot is presented here first mainly because it might be “easier” to comprehend. On the other hand, characters … Continue reading →

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Learning to Write Fiction

Posted on 01/13/2011 by Jeff May

Thousands of “How to Write Fiction” books have been written, dating back to Sherwin Cody’s 1894 How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing. Cody hadn’t published any fiction when he wrote his “how to” book. And two years later, his novel failed miserably. Cody never wrote fiction again. Or at least he never tried to publish his fiction. (In today’s electronic world, he might have tried “self-publishing” on Smashwords or CreateSpace.) … Continue reading →

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