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Taking Back Christmas

John Grisham wrote a book called SKIPPING CHRISTMAS. Amazon.com reports: “John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham’s story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. […]

Ten Tips for Building Multi-Faceted Characters

How to build complex, multi-dimensional characters 10 Tips for Creating Multi-faceted Characters By Maxine E. Thompson http://www.maxinethompson.com =================================== When I was sixteen, during the Civil Rights era, as part of a one-way student exchange program (from the inner city of Detroit to suburban Traverse City, Michigan), I lived with a white family as part of […]