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Adele Annesi Writer, editor, press correspondent, teacher

Adele Annesi
Adele Annesi
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Member since: Aug, 2009
Last login: 07/23/2010
Last update : 07/23/2010
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  • Adele is an award-winning writer and editor for global online and print publications. She worked as a development editor for Scholastic Publishing, and is a fiction and nonfiction book editor specializing in business, religion and memoir. As a press correspondent and columnist, Adele writes for newspapers, magazines, blogs and literary journals.

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  • The Most Important Question a Writer Can Ask

    July 23, 2010

    • The most searching, most revealing, most important question you can ask yourself as a writer, maybe in life, is "why." Here, we examine how to unlock the power of this question to break writer's block. To tackle writer's block, ask yourself what about your writing project has you stymied, why you can't write. What's holding you back? Answer these questions in detail, with honesty and in ...
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  • Fractal Thinking: A Writer’s Strange Thought Process

    July 14, 2010

    • When I see something of interest in the world, I often replicate it in my imagination so that I can analyze it later. This happens a lot and so quickly I don't think about it, though it's there in my subconscious. The other day I was waiting for the morning train, drinking coffee, finishing a chapter of John Gardner's The Art of Fiction and listening to a new commuting buddy express her interest ...
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  • "On a Clear Day: Editing for Clarity and Publication"

    July 9, 2010

    • Welcome to a four-part series on editing your work for clarity and publication. There's nothing like clear communication to get a point across. Even writers of literary fiction need to know what they want to say and how best to say it, how to obscure and reveal. For clarity in revelation, we'll describe, diagnose and provide fixes for four common problems that keep writers from publication: ...
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  • A Poetic Soul: Creativity in the Off Hours With News Writer Jack Sheedy

    July 2, 2010

    • SPJ award-winning journalist Jack Sheedy tackles tough subjects with a clear, creative touch. Like all busy working writers, he uses downtime to refuel his creative juices. Also a list maker, Jack finds the to-do list helpful in keeping him on the writing track, and for firing up his creative soul. Jack's wife is the poet Jean Sands.AA: What was the award, and how did the idea for the winning ...
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  • In Between Time: Food for Thought and Consumption

    May 12, 2010

    •   Barring volcanic eruptions or other unforeseen circumstances, I leave tomorrow for Italy for three weeks. So, I was thinking, since I'll have limited email access, what can I leave you with for that time?One of the best things I could leave is a roadmap to better writing. To that end, here are 21 tips from Robert Bausch author of The Lives of Riley Chance, A Hole in the Earth and The Gypsy ...
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