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Let Your Main Character Change You—It’s a Relationship, After All by Lee Upton

Let Your Main Character Change You—It’s a Relationship, After All by Lee Upton

Recently I asked another novelist how she characterizes her relationship with her main character. Without hesitation she said, “It’s a passionate love affair.” That sounds exciting—and fabulous.  Our connection with a main character might be volatile, obsessive, teeming with unexpected swerves, even fraught with the possibility of abandonment if the novel fails.  To write a […]

August 12, 2026 | By | Reply More
How Unburned Came to Be by Sarah Oelschig

How Unburned Came to Be by Sarah Oelschig

Unburned: A Slightly Messy, Mostly Honest Guide to Life After Burnout, by Sarah Oelschig Unburned didn’t begin with a plan. It began with a piano.  In the middle of 2022, I was deep in what I now know was burnout, though I didn’t have a name for it yet. As an HR leader, my job was to […]

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