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Fiction: Outlines

October 9, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Outlines can be dicey, to say the least. Here’s my first fear: if I write out an entire outline for a story, will I feel

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Fiction: Pick a Chaos, Any Chaos

October 5, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Every novel needs a little chaos in it. That’s what ignites the story. The novel begins with a character or two in their regular, everyday

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First Notes on the Novel

October 4, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

According to my journals, I wrote the first notes for my novel The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones on August 2, 1996. “No title

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My Rat

September 28, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

I was at war with a rat for four months. It was a losing battle; nearly every morning for sixteen weeks, we woke to half-eaten

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