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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. There’s something both exhilarating and disorienting about standing this close to the end of a book. Right now, I’m deep in the rewrite of Chapter 12 which is my Frankenstein chapter. It’s a careful stitching together of old material and new insight, pulling from what once…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. When we learn early American history, the story usually moves in one direction, north toward freedom or west across the frontier. But after traveling through South Carolina’s Lowcountry and into St. Augustine, Florida, I discovered a different path entirely. One that runs south. My journey…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. I hope you’ve had a great week. Originally, I planned to share a post about deepening your characters; rounding them out and layering in emotion. But this week, I felt pulled in a different direction. I want to talk about something real. Something many of…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. It’s been a while since my last blog post. This one feels a little more like a confession. Today is the last day of my vacation from the heavy rewrite process. It took more convincing than I’d like to admit for me to take the…
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Songs that Teach us To Fight By Peggy Arthur Greetings readers, writers, and everyone in between. Please remember you are always welcome here. “A soldier is defined as one engaged in military service, typically within an army, who fights for their government and carries weapons; often risking their life.” What Does It Mean to Be…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings readers, writers, and everyone in between. Please remember you are always welcome here. I’m currently rewriting and editing Chapters 5 & 6 of The Pretender’s Game, and this chapter will include selected material from the original manuscript. As I’ve worked through the first four chapters, I’ve approached the book with a…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings readers, writers, and everyone in between! One of the biggest areas I’m currently focused on in my manuscript is dialogue. I’ve learned something simple but powerful: one of the fastest ways to improve a manuscript is to improve the dialogue. That realization shifted how I approached my rewrite entirely. Dialogue isn’t…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings readers, writers, and everyone in between! There’s a quiet truth about writing that doesn’t get talked about enough: sometimes the real work begins after the words are already on the page. Right now, I’m deep in a heavy rewrite. Specifically, the chapter after the prologue. Otherwise known as Chapter 2. A…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings readers, writers, and everyone in between! Last weekend, I found myself leaning into the quiet vibrations of spring. That energy led me, almost unexpectedly, to pause and read a historical marker tucked into my neighborhood. It marked a tree; one that had survived the devastating sweep of Dutch Elm disease that…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings! This week I reached another milestone in my writing journey. I submitted my beat sheet to my editor. It was the very first exercise she recommended in her editorial letter, and completing it required far more energy than I expected. Plotting an entire story from beginning to end is not simply…
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