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John DeDakis

 

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John
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Award-winning novelist John DeDakis is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six traditionally published novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. Enemies Domestic, his latest political thriller, won the Pencraft and Feathered Quill book awards and received the Grand Prize for Chanticleer’s Clue Award for Best Suspense/Thriller. DeDakis is a podcaster, one-on-one writing coach, manuscript editor, and regularly teaches novel writing at literary centers and conferences nationwide. Originally from La Crosse, John now lives in Baltimore. Website: www.johndedakis.com
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1. How to Write a Novel
2. Capturing Your Story: The Art of Memoir
3. How to Write in the Voice of the Opposite Sex (a.k.a. Deep Listening Skills for Writers)
4. How to Write a Key Scene
5. How to Stay Organized: Creating Order From Chaos
6. Buffing and Polishing: The Art of Rewriting
7. Facing Your Writing Fears
8. Writing to Heal
9. Journalism in the Era of Fake News
10. From Journalist to Novelist (Or How I Learned to Start Making it Up)
11. Planning vs. Seat-of-the-Pantsing
12. Research: Writing What You DON'T Know
13. Characterization Through Dialogue
14. Evoking a Sense of Place
15. The Art of the Interview
16. Getting an Agent.....and Getting Noticed

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