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Looking Out The Window: Writing From The Trenches, A New Book On Writing Techniques By Those Who've Been There

Ten Authors Provide Experience and Expertise On Writing They've been on the front lines of publishing and lived to teach about it in Writing from the Trenches A Warm Welcome To   Connie Almony, Lynnette Bonner, Hallee Bridgeman, Louise Gouge, Michelle Griep, Julie Lessman, Elizabeth Ludwig, Ane Mulligan, MaryLu Tyndall, and Erica Vetsch. How Writing from the Trenches was Born By MaryLu Tyndall Who in their right mind would attempt to create a writing instruction book with nine other authors? It’s hard enough to co-write anything with two different personalities. But nine? Especially because most authors—well, how do I put this gently?—we are an eccentric bunch. It goes with the creative territory, I suppose. We all tend to hear voices in our heads, and most of the time we aren’t even present in this world, but drifting in another time and place, constantly creating worlds and characters in our minds. Try to corral ten people like that and get them to focus on