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Maya Angelou: Love Liberates it Does Not Bind

Good Writing and Writers, Heart of Writing, InterviewJames BuchananAugust 14, 2015Maya Angelou, love liberates, what it means to be a writer, the meaning of creativityComment

Set-Pieces and Plot Points & Boo Radley, Ewell, Atticus and Scout

Heart of Writing, StructureJames BuchananJuly 28, 2015Cheryl Strayed, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Bob Ewell, Atticus Finch, Scout Finch, Wild, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, plot points, set pieces, story structure, five act outlineComment

Memoir and Storytelling

Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananJune 30, 2015Vivien Gornick, Maria Popova, memoir, narrative nonfiction, storytelling, The Situation and The Story, personal narrativeComment

Heart of Writing, Quotes, Good Writing and WritersJames BuchananJune 22, 2015Oliver Sacks, Brain Pickings, Maria Popova, Thom Gunn, writing, publishingComment

John Irving on Plot, Narrative, Storytelling

Art, Guidance, Heart of WritingJames BuchananMay 4, 2015John Irving, plot, narrative, story, storytelling, write for readersComment

Mary Karr on Character Transformation

Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananMay 1, 2015Mary Karr, memoir, storytelling, fiction, nonfiction, plot, character, protagonistComment

Hemingway On Worry

Quotes, Heart of WritingJames BuchananApril 22, 2015Ernest Hemingway, worry, anxiety, quote, writing, fiction, nonfictionComment

Chuck Palahniuk

Heart of WritingJames BuchananMarch 25, 2015Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, take risks, writing, fiction, nonfictionComment

One True Sentence

Heart of WritingJames BuchananMarch 16, 2015Hemingway, write one true sentence, moveable feast, best writing advice, tattoo, core of all writing, nonfiction, fictionComment