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Does Length (or Size) Matter?

Does Length (or Size) Matter?

by Tom Hogan | Feb 24, 2023 | Book Coach, Screenplays, short story, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, The Forever Game, Writing

After all these years of writing and having some of my work published, I rarely, if ever, considered word count. It wasn’t until Newsweek told me to lose 200 words of my carefully (and beautifully) constructed article on pedophilia in the Catholic clergy that I...
Taking It Scene by Scene: a coach’s advice

Taking It Scene by Scene: a coach’s advice

by Tom Hogan | Feb 6, 2023 | Book Coach, Screenplays, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, The Forever Game, Writing

If you think you’re a pretty good writer (which I do) and you want to become a better writer (which I also do), then my advice is to hire an editor. Bear in mind, though, that even though you’re paying them, a good editor will be direct and honest, often brutally so....
Sideways and Down

Sideways and Down

by Tom Hogan | Dec 6, 2022 | Screenplays, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, The Forever Game, Writing

As promised, every two weeks (until I catch up to the work in progress), I’ll include a chapter, in sequence, of my novel-in-progress, The Forever Game. What follows is the opening chapter (remember, there were two different prologues, one for the script and one for...

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