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Wendy Van Camp
Wendy Van Camp, Poet Laureate Emerita of Anaheim, CA, and Co-Chair of SFWA's Poetry Committee, is known for her tech and astronomy-inspired poetry and non-fiction essays. More at wendyvancamp.com.
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Writing often feels like a tug-of-war with distractions, be it the constant ping of notifications, the pull of social media, or the endless temptation to tweak and fiddle with previous sentences instead of writing new words. Plenty of word processors offer features meant to combat this. Scrivener’s Composition Mode...
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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... My first novel started with a character rather than a story. Although I had attempted to start a novel now and then, I had never gotten very far. Yet this character kept speaking to me. He told me of his fears, of...