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Staying True To Your Characters—Whether You Like Them or Not

By Elle Lothlorien On April 15, 2013 · 2 Comments
  “Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.” ~Matthew Arnold “A writer should create living people; people, not characters.  A character is a caricature.” ~Ernest Hemingway   The Review The following is an excerpt from a 1-star review for my romantic comedy The Frog Prince that was [...]
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Finding Your Inner Bitch on Valentine’s Day

By Elle Lothlorien On February 17, 2013 · 1 Comment
“You can break down a woman temporarily but a Real Woman will always pick up the pieces, rebuild herself, and come back stronger than ever.” -Anonymous “I’m strong because I’ve been weak. I’m brave because I’ve been afraid. I’m wise because I’ve been foolish.” -Anonymous   Let’s talk about Cadbury eggs. No, seriously. [...]
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Sleepy Stories: Real Life Makes Great Fiction (and Vice Versa)

On December 25, 2012 By Elle Lothlorien
“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.” ~Virginia Woolf   The last thing I remember, I was in an elevator, rattling with agitation like a washing machine trying to [...]
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Straight Down the Rabbit Hole: When Life Is Stranger (and Hotter) Than Fiction

On December 9, 2012 By Elle Lothlorien
  “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.” -Flannery O’Connor, attributed, Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer’s Life “Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of [...]
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If This Is Love, Then Why Am I Laboring?

On December 7, 2012 By Elle Lothlorien
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ―Stephen King, On Writing “I hate writing. I love having written.” ―Dorothy Parker   A friend of mine suffers from a condition called “rapid labor.” Her first child was born about two hours after her water broke; the  second shot into the world [...]
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Let’s Talk About My Pants. No, Seriously.

On December 6, 2012 By Elle Lothlorien
On a chilly afternoon in late January, I was in New York City to speak on the “Successful Self-Published Authors” panel alongside New York Times bestselling authors Bella Andre and Bob Mayer at the Digital Book World Expo. The following morning, I was standing in my friend’s New York City living room in a [...]
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Fairy Tales: Making Your Kids Hate You, Lie To You, and Run Away From Home Since 1812

On December 3, 2012 By Elle Lothlorien
12/03/2012 “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ―Albert Einstein “My best feature is my voice—La! La! La!—so I sold it for plastic surgery. You should always find a stranger, and then genetically modify yourself for [...]
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