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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#002060'>~Unless
you’re lucky enough to have a captive professional writer in your
bedroom, the best way to acquire such a guide is to take a creative writing
course from someone who knows whereof she speaks. And if you find it helpful,
or I suppose just fun, go on to take a few more. At some point along the line
you’ll start submitting stories to magazines, or books to publishers, or
screenplays to Hollywood agents, and collecting rejection slips. And then
you’ll get the first note from an editor saying she might be interest in
buying your masterwork if you’ll only make the following small revisions.
And, after gritting your teeth and ripping the heart and lungs out of your
piece and sticking new ones in, you’ll have sold your first story. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#002060'>How to
begin? Easy: pick a writing course and prepare yourself to get the most from
the teacher, the material, and the welcome but painful critiques of your own
work. Creative writing can’t be taught, as I said back in the [above]
paragraph; it must be learned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#002060'>Excerpt from
Article, <b><i>"Getting The Most From Your Writing"</i></b> by
Michael Kurland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy'>Learn What REAL
Writers Know to Get Published!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
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</span></b><strong><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Conversation with Published Author</span></strong><b><span
style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:navy'><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Dr. Gary Allen
Marmolya: Going from an Idea to a Book Deal</span></strong></span></b><span
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