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Descriptive Language that Sparkles
Kill your darlings! Get to the point! Plot over prose! How many times have you heard advice about simplifying your writing for middle...
Russell Hirsch
Oct 25, 20232 min read
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SIWC - Simply Inspiring Writers' Conference
We all know the feeling of finding our tribe. Whether we were kids discovering new friends on the playground, teens navigating a new...
Russell Hirsch
Oct 10, 20231 min read
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The Hero’s Journey – The Approach
We really shouldn’t go in there—but we have to! We’re now well into the Middle Phase (Act 2) of a story. The characters have started to...
Russell Hirsch
Oct 2, 2015
In the beginning…
There was Storythreads–or at least now there is! This is a blog by Vancouver-based writer Russell F. Hirsch. That’s me! I’ll be posting...
Russell Hirsch
Aug 19, 2013
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