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December: What I Wish for You
Dear GWA members, This will be my last column for the time being. Thank you for reading my offerings this past year. In January I wrote about beginning…
Nov 29, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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How to Write a Query Letter
In order to sign with a literary agent who will submit your novel to publishers, you need to write a query letter. Writing a query letter can often seem…
Nov 2, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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October 2021
October: Is the Writing Life a Horror Story?
October in the United States heralds in Halloween, a month of ghouls and ghosts and goblins. It doesn’t scare writers. Writers battle demons all year…
Oct 1, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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October: Is the Writing Life a Horror Story?
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August 2021
September: Stylistically Yours
Once upon a time lived a little girl and three bears but they lived in different houses and all screams do not sound the same. The first thing the three…
Aug 31, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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August: On Comfort Zones--Part 2 Guided and Non-Guided Readings
In "Part One--On Comfort Zones," I discussed how reading outside my usual choices through books recommended by friends turned out to be both enjoyable…
Aug 2, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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August: On Comfort Zones--Part 2 Guided and Non-Guided Readings
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June 2021
July: On Comfort Zones--Part 1
I was recently in a different country (for a long four months) due to an emergency and without any access to a bookstore or library (covid) and, as…
Jun 30, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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July: On Comfort Zones--Part 1
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May 2021
June: Literary Agents--How, Why, and Do You Really Need Them?
You’ve finished your short story collection or novel. Congratulations. Your next step is signing with a literary agent in order to submit your…
May 31, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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June: Literary Agents--How, Why, and Do You Really Need Them?
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May: Beginnings, Loops, Ends
Where you begin a story depends on how you want to tell the story, in other words your version of the beginning, middle and end of how you see your…
May 4, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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May: Beginnings, Loops, Ends
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March 2021
April: So You Want To Write a Retelling?
The definition of a retelling for me is to take a classic novel and tell it in a different way. A prequel, sequel, continuation, spin off, is not a…
Mar 31, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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April: So You Want To Write a Retelling?
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February 2021
March: Of Conflict and Other Wars
Can there be story without any conflicts, hurdles, obstacles? What are the basic building blocks of story that incorporate conflict in its myriad ways…
Feb 28, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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February: Rejection, Dejection and Other Celebrations
I’ve accrued enough rejections after twenty plus years of writing to easily build myself a coffin or two. In the beginning it certainly felt like I was…
Feb 1, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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February: Rejection, Dejection and Other Celebrations
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January 2021
January: Looking Back, Looking Forward
And so it rolls around yet again, in manmade frames of keeping time, another new year which the Western world knows as a transition from December 31st…
Jan 2, 2021
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Soniah Kamal
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January: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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