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A Songwriter No More

A Songwriter No More

My father and I often discuss which is more difficult, writing songs or writing fiction. He’s a songwriter, a passion he passed on to me. Having done both, I argue that songwriting is harder. No matter the length of the story, authors have wiggle room to play with wording, character development, and plot. Songwriters tell a story, too, but they have much less space to do it in, plus they’re working with rhymes and rhythms, and it all has to…

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How Story Is Like a Game of Cards

How Story Is Like a Game of Cards

Note: This post was originally published on the Lucy Varna blog. My parents played a lot of cards when I was growing up. They had a whole clique of fellow card players whose houses we would rotate through on the weekends for mini-tournaments of Rummy (of all kinds), Rook, Cribbage, or whatever the flavor of the moment was. Around the time I turned eleven, someone turned my parents on to Canasta, the most enduring of all the games my parents played….

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