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    Ghostwriting and folding egg whites in batter: a tale of two Julia Childs

    20 June, 2017 by Kristin Tags: cooking, craft, ghostwriting, Hamilton, joan rivers, Julia Child, uncertainty πŸ•‘ 2 minutes read
    Ghostwriting is like folding egg whites into batter.

    How do you blend the idealist writer in you with pragmatic demands ofΒ  ghostwriting? Kristin Johnson draws inspiration from none other than Julia Child. In […]

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    How To Dazzle With Dialogue

    29 May, 2016 by Kristin Tags: dialogue, movies, screenplays, screenwriters πŸ•‘ 3 minutes read
    5 principles of dialogue

    Screenplay writer Kristin Johnson offers five key principles of dialogue, with an example of all five from the movie “Steve Jobs”. On February 9 I […]

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    Filed Under: Writing and editing

    What Words With Friends can teach you about writing

    30 April, 2016 by Kristin πŸ•‘ 2 minutes read

    If you plan to procrastinate, you might as well do so with something to challenge your inner wordmaster. Neurolinguistics professor Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) played […]

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    Filed Under: Miscellaneous

    Are You A Writing Hoarder?

    28 October, 2015 by Kristin Tags: hoarding πŸ•‘ 3 minutes read

    We all know what hoarding is, but have you ever heard about writing hoarders? Digital hoarding is “a thing”. Haley Cue of XoJane.com writes: Technology […]

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    Filed Under: Miscellaneous

    Top Memorable Writers Conference Moments

    25 September, 2015 by Kristin Tags: Artists, writers conference πŸ•‘ 11 minutes read
    Burn the rejection letter, pour yourself a whiskey and get back to work.

    Kristin Johnson, our writers conference junkie, reports from the Southern California Writers Conference. Once again I’m packing manuscripts, new business cards and prose in need […]

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    Filed Under: Books and publishing

    Story packing: Ara Grigorian’s Finding the Story Beats workshop (spoilers)

    25 June, 2015 by Kristin 1 Comment Tags: composition, fiction, story structure, stroytelling πŸ•‘ 6 minutes read
    What have I done?

    There is both an art and a science to setting the pace of your novel. Here is what Kristin learned at the Story Beats Workshop […]

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    Filed Under: Writing and editing

    8 Must-Have Items to Pack for a Writers Conference

    8 June, 2015 by Kristin Tags: travel.packing, writers conferneces πŸ•‘ 4 minutes read
    What to pack for a writers conference

    Kristin is off to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and – ooh, look what she’s packing! It’s that time of year. To quote Alice Cooper, […]

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    The Best Worst Thing That Ever Happened

    6 April, 2015 by Kristin 2 Comments Tags: character, climax, crisis, inciting incident, movies, nonfiction, novel πŸ•‘ 4 minutes read

    Every hero faces that moment when they are cursed – The Worst Possible Thing happens. It is upon the ruins of that curse that the […]

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    Meeting your writing muse on the mountain

    18 March, 2015 by Kristin 4 Comments Tags: fear, muse πŸ•‘ 2 minutes read

    The exhilaration of writing is met with the fear of leaping into uncertainty. Listen to your muse and jump when she says to. Marvin V. […]

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    Writers Family Holiday Bingo

    3 December, 2014 by Kristin 1 Comment Tags: bingo, games, satire, writers πŸ•‘ 3 minutes read

    Are you a writer, stressed about facing the family over the Holidays?Β  We have instant stress relief for you in the form of Writers’ Family […]

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    Historical Writing Comes Alive at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference

    18 June, 2014 by Kristin 1 Comment Tags: historical fiction, history, writers πŸ•‘ 5 minutes read
    Writers make history come alive

    “Please turn off your cell phones. We are going back into the past.”Β  Let’s take a glimpse of how historical fiction is crafted, by some […]

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    Maile Meloy Addresses the Santa Barbara Writers Conference

    10 June, 2014 by Kristin Tags: author, conference, Maile Meloy, speaker, writers πŸ•‘ 3 minutes read

    Kristin Johnson reports live from the Santa Barbara Writers Conference on speaker Maile Meloy’s keynote address. Your humble correspondent had a full first day at […]

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    Being Uncertain Means You’re Alive

    23 May, 2014 by Kristin 5 Comments Tags: clients, collaboration, ghostwriter, ghostwriting πŸ•‘ 4 minutes read
    Being uncertain means you're alive!

    Client-ghostwriter collaboration is like courtship. It always starts off with uncertainty, then subsides when you slide into that rhythm of collaboration. In listening to The […]

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    Black Eye Monday: Batman and Superman “Reuse to Vacate” Captain America

    15 April, 2014 by Kristin Tags: movies, proofreading πŸ•‘ 1 minute read

    Proofread.Β  Proofread. Proofread.Β  Kristin Johnson doesn’t want to know what “Reuse to Vacate” might mean. The above headline might sound like a sentence from a […]

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