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The Craft of Writing

Today is my first release day! Now get your mind out of the gutter… My first novella, Maison Domine, goes on sale today. Now that I’m no longer an author virgin, I figured it was time to pop another metaphorical cherry and join the lovely list of authors that contribute to the Samhain blog. Hang on, and here we go…

Give me a research paper, and I’ll tell you how to write it. Ditto for literary criticism essays and analytical lab reports. They’re academic. They’re formulaic. There’s a right way and a wrong way to compose such works. And while there is some leeway, it is expected that an essay for a literature class, for example, will have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion, with each paragraph composed of a topic sentence or transition sentence, body sentences, and a concluding sentence. Easy.