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Jason Collins and Writing With Realism

April 29, 2013 - by jenniecoughlin

Jason Collins’ announcement today in Sports Illustrated — the first active male pro athlete in one of the major US leagues to come out of the closet — is historic. It also highlights an interesting challenge I had when I …

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Novel sneak peek coming this week

July 31, 2012 - by jenniecoughlin

I’m going to be a bit of a tease today, but I’m hoping you won’t mind. Because chaos at my newspaper job kept pushing back the release date of the first Exeter novel, “All That Is Necessary,” I often get …

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Story Cubes Challenge Entry: Into the Future

April 23, 2012 - by jenniecoughlin - 6 Comments.

Two days to go before the first Story Cubes Challenge week ends and I’ve got my ficlet. Cubes: Hanging, yelling/shouting, pushing, thought bubble, padlock, turning, arrow/pointer, dancing, question mark Into The Future “Do I have to dance?” Dan frowned. “Because …

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Around Town: The Reilly House

December 15, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 2 Comments.

Welcome to this week’s Around Town, a series of posts looking at places in Exeter that show up in the series — if not in Thrown Out, then in a future book. This week’s is a little long as we …

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Meet the Characters

Meet the Characters: Dan Reilly

December 5, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 6 Comments.

As announced last week, here’s the first installment in the weekly Meet the Characters series. Exeter Ledger editor Carl “CJ” Jenkins is interviewing various town residents for a series of profiles in the Ledger and is sharing them with you …

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Story Cubes Challenge Round 9: Now What?

November 24, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 2 Comments.

This isn’t truly a Story Cubes Challenge entry because my cubes are at home, but I woke up this morning with some Thanksgiving football plot bunnies hopping madly in my head. If you’re not from Massachusetts, the annual high school …

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exeter / Uncategorized / writing process

Book 2 Test Drive

October 30, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin - 8 Comments.

I’ve been working on Book 2 in the Exeter series for the past several weeks, and it’s grown from a novella telling about that summer mentioned in Bones of the Past to a bigger, deeper novel about a summer that …

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Simmering plot bunnies

October 13, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin

The past week hasn’t seen a lot of words on the page, but my plot bunnies have been pretty active as I shift different pieces around for both Unburied (Book 2) and the next two books in the series. Unburied …

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#WorkshopWeekend – the non Google+ version

July 23, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin

It’s the first Google+ #WorkshopWeekend where we post pieces (<1,000 words) on Saturday for people to critique. Bruce had asked if there was a way people not yet on G+ could join in, so I’m also posting mine here for …

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Story Cubes Challenge, Week 2

July 2, 2011 - by jenniecoughlin

Here’s this week’s entry in the Story Cubes Challenge. As I mentioned below, I used this to experiment a bit with different types of storytelling. Prompts: Bug, castle/turret, book, cell phone, flower, padlock, house/1-room-school, sad face, globe

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