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  • Pulp Rag: Touching your reader’s core with resonance

    Let’s talk resonance.

    Kathryn brought up a good point in the comments on that last post, Loving in the time of cholera. I was ranting about not introducing a pivotal character too late in your story, and she wanted to know: “When is too late too late?”. . .

    Read the full essay on Pulp Rag.

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4 Responses to “Pulp Rag: Touching your reader’s core with resonance”

  1. Lady Glamis said on October 1st, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    ACK! You have so many new posts! I’ve been finishing up my rewrite of Monarch, so I’ve been a busy little bee. Hope I can find time to read all of your great wisdom!

  2. Victoria said on October 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Yes, I’ve been building a backlog so you all have something to read while I’m busy with clients. I’m so motherly, aren’t I?

    I won’t keep this pace up much longer. I plan on a Mon/Wed/Fri schedule for both blogs as soon as I settle down.

    Keep your priorities! You’re a reader because you want to write better. But you’re a writer because you write.

    Victoria

  3. Lady Glamis said on October 5th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Okay, good to know! I plan on sitting down with some hot cocoa soon to catch up on all of them! :)

  4. Victoria said on October 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Mmm. I love hot cocoa. Unfortunately, I have become allergic to dairy and now need to minimize my chocolate intake. All I have to sustain me emotionally anymore is fiction. . .

    Victoria

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.