Birthdays: Heinrich Mann (1871), Thorne Smith (1892), Budd Schulberg (1914), Dick King-Smith (1922), Barnaby Conrad (1922), Louis Simpson (1923), Frank O’Hara (1926), Michael Jackson (1942), Julia Alvarez (1950), Dana Stabenow (1952), Patricia C Wrede (1953), Patrick McCabe (1955), Kevin J. Anderson (1962)
Louis Simpson won the 1964 Pulitzer for Poetry for “At the End of the Open Road”
Quote: “To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.” – Dana Stabenow
Tip: Don’t make your hero or heroine perfect. Give them a flaw or quirk. Make them real.
Jumpstart: Finish this scene: The day I died…(use: sunshine, ice storm, valentine)
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