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The Big Picture: Writing Outside My Generation

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 4/29/2011 7:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Moreover, Did You Hear the Story about the Conjunctive Adverbs?

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Absolute Constructions: A Marriage of Separation

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Why Write When I Can Stab Myself with a Ticonderoga Pencil (Re-published)

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It's about I (and Me)

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The Geography of a Story

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Shoe-string Technology: Serendipity

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Intention, Please, Intention!

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The Emotional Journey: Finding Destination

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Character Descriptions: More or Less

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Write What You No: How to be Original

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Favorite Words: Expurgate

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Ellipsis Periods: Omission Possible and the Pause that Refreshes

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Anachronisms: How Columbus Could Write a Check

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Onward!

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Favorite Words: Tautological

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Dropping from My Limb: Writers' Conferences 2011

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 12/13/2010 1:02 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Good for Nothing

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 12/6/2010 11:33 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Dark Crooked Alley of Literary Fiction

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 11/29/2010 11:34 AM | Add Comment

Italics: A Distinguished Device

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Born to Write

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Selective Memory: Adopting Family for Fiction

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Everything You Ever Needed to Know about the Apostrophe But Didn't Give a Damn

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 10/27/2010 10:37 AM | Add Comment

Out of the Chute: Writing a Good Opening Line (Re-Published)

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Controversial Writing: Poison or Candy?

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 10/18/2010 9:26 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Ending It All (Re-published)

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Putting the Passive Voice in its Place

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Famous Last Words: The End

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Connections: Turning on Ideas (Re-Published)

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Ending it All

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Writing Backwards: How to Remove What Shouldn't Be There

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Accidentalism: Finding a Literary Style

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Perspectives Begin with Destinations

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Conundrums and Drums Without Conuns

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Burn in Hell for those Shifts in Focus

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 7/12/2010 5:20 PM | Add Comment

One is the Loneliest Number You Can Ever Do

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Lights! Camera! Verb!

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COMING SOON: Lights! Camera! Verb!

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 6/9/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Pudding!

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Critique Groups: Fellowship of the Ring

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The Sentence Splicer: Using the Semicolon

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 5/17/2010 2:45 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Out of the Chute: Writing a Good Opening Line

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 5/5/2010 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Location, Location, Location

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Why Write When I Can Stab Myself in the Heart with a Ticonderoga Pencil?

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 4/7/2010 9:32 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Let's Talk: Writing Believable Dialogue

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 3/30/2010 9:51 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Restoration

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 3/24/2010 4:27 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Choice Words: Avoiding Awkward, Vague and Unclear Writing

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 3/3/2010 10:04 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Creating Suspense, Tension and Surprise in Your Stories (Re-Published)

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 2/24/2010 12:48 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Kamikaze Writing

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Bring Dead Writing Back to Life with the Five Senses (Re-Published)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part Six)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part Five)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part Four)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part Three)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part Two)

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The Ten Commandments: Comma or Coma? (Part One)

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Writing with Laryngitis: Finding Your Voice

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Avoiding the Obvious by Surprising Yourself

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Just the Facts, Ma'am

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Exposing Yourself in Public: Writing that Gets Personal

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Who Wants to Write Like John Wayne Speaks?

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Bring Dead Writing Back to Life with the Five Senses

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What Would Jesus Do?

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Time to Write

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 12/31/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

Creating Suspense, Tension and Surprise in Your Stories

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On the Cusp

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 12/27/2009 7:34 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Hi, I'm Tom and I'm a Control Freak

Posted by Tom Eubanks at 12/25/2009 12:46 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

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Writer, theatrical director, actor and 35-year veteran private eye, Tom lives in The Ojai Valley, CA, with his wife and the youngest of his three daughters. Deeply involved in the Ventura County theater community for the last 14 years, he serves as the Artistic Director for The Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard, CA. He is the co-author of How To Protect Your Life & Property: An Everyday Survival Guide. He wrote and directed the feature film Open Spaces. Tom has directed, produced and/or acted in over 65 productions. He is the recipient of two REP Awards for acting and directing and the 4-Star Theater Awards in Ventura County has awarded him four awards for Outstanding Direction.

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