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Taylor Ramage

Is Head Hopping Necessary?

Taylor Ramage March 25, 2015

         Much of the writing advice I’ve seen over the past few…

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Lessons from Gravity: How to Fail the Bechdel Test (in a good way)

Taylor Ramage March 19, 2014

  This Oscars 2014 post series didn’t go quite as planned, but even though I…

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Lessons from The Hunger Games: The Limits of First-Person Present Tense

Taylor Ramage March 9, 2014

    By now, everyone has talked The Hunger Games to death. Though it largely…

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Writing God in Genre Fiction

Taylor Ramage February 9, 2014

If I had a fancy suit for every time I’ve heard about the struggle of…

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Lessons from Her: Sidestepping the Creepy Clichés

Taylor Ramage January 29, 2014

Oscar season is upon us and that means that deserving favorites won’t likely win in…

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Don’t Travel Through Pants: How Dungeons and Dragons Helps Writers Solve World Problems

Taylor Ramage August 6, 2013

In the six months since I’ve started playing Dungeons and Dragons, I have learned to…

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Obligatory NaNoWriMo 2012 Post

Taylor Ramage October 21, 2012

In the past, I’ve made NaNo posts after the event, but never before. This is…

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