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Category Archives: Amber Foxx
Book Club Discussion Questions
I recently created a set of reading group discussion questions for the first book in my series, The Calling. An unconventional mystery with a coming of age element, set in rural Northeastern North Carolina, I’ve always thought it had … Continue reading
Getting Unstuck
Last weekend, I ran into a fellow writer and asked him how his new book was going. He said it was hard. Very hard. I said mine was too, and he replied, “If they’re good, they’re all hard. Can … Continue reading
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Tagged Mae Martin Mysteries, New releases, patience, plotting, progress, sale, skills, Small Awakenings, subplots, writing tips
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The Fig Tree, Yoga, and the Middle of the Book
At first glance, the fig tree in the courtyard outside my apartment looks like a round mound of large green leaves and tiny green fruits. Today, I studied it longer, though, and began to see golden-brown fruit hidden in the … Continue reading
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Tagged creative process, revision, writing the middle of the book, yoga and writing
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Call Me Inaccessible
Cell phones are so convenient in real life life and so inconvenient in fiction when you want to strand a city girl on an unlit road in the desert on a cold winter night. So inconvenient when you want characters … Continue reading
Lessons from a Flawed-io-book
I seldom finish a book I don’t like, but I recently got all the way to the end of a romantic suspense audiobook that I almost gave up on. Since I was usually exercising or doing housework while I listened, … Continue reading
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Tagged boring, critique partners, learning from others' mistakes, mistakes, writing habits
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Disorienting Dilemma
I came across this concept in a textbook on wellness coaching: people are most likely to change when they’re faced with a disorienting dilemma. Immediately, I shifted gears from my fitness professional role to thinking as a writer. Disorienting. I … Continue reading
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Tagged challenge, character arc, characters' lives, decisions, dilemma, ideas
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Bad Actors
Mysteries, even the lighter ones, touch on the darker side of human nature. There is a wrong to be righted, not just a puzzle to solve. Since I don’t write about murder, I alternate between what I think of crimes … Continue reading
