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Carol Berg
American
Novelist
About
Great
How
Me
Writing
You
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There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
Carol Berg
You
Think
Books
Way
Plot
Tell
Point
Could
Well
Am
Handled
Going
Which
I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
Carol Berg
Best
Good
Day
Every Day
Writing
Training
School
Every
Too
High
Hated
High School
Only
Drill
Through
Had
Part
Read
Were
Lot
Often
Grammar
Which
Really
Required
Teachers
English
Elementary
Every Night
Night
Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Carol Berg
Dark
Think
High
Hopeful
Some
Angst
Like
Call
Reviewers
Yes
Endings
Stories
Stakes
Satisfying
Violence
For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
Carol Berg
Great
Miserable
Mountains
Cold
Market
Summer
Books
Scene
Empire
Opening
Because
Began
Quickly
Wanted
Capital
Desert
Riding
Chose
Image
Slave
Set
One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg
Life
Me
You
People
Writing
Advice
Everybody
Way
One Of The Things
Would
Boring
About
Gives
Write
Writers
Put
Nobody
New
Know
Piece
Read
Were
Lot
Off
Cultures
Different
Want
While
Ever
Things
Societies
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Carol Berg
Work
You
Eyes
Communication
Writing
Other
Else
Someone
Writers
Put
Know
Until
Also
Learn
How
Doing
Front
Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
Carol Berg
Words
Before
Thinking
About
Write
Getting
Published
Million
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