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John

Last name

DeDakis

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Bio

Award-winning novelist John DeDakis is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of five novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. Book 6, Enemies Domestic, a political thriller, will be released in the summer of 2024. DeDakis, a former White House correspondent, is a writing coach, manuscript editor, and regularly teaches novel writing online and at literary centers and writers’ conferences around the country. He is also the host of the live video podcast “One-to-One” on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. A native of La Crosse, DeDakis now lives in Baltimore.

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https://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

John DeDakis

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