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Meg Waite Clayton

Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 6 other novels

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September 25, 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton

Writing and Placing Opinion Pieces

Ten years ago today, on the 40th anniversary of Sandra Day O'Connor taking her seat as the 1st female Justice of the Supreme Court, I published my first opinion …

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May 10, 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton

Tips for Writers

Writers Links The Single Best Piece of Advice I've Gotten as a Writer Great Sources for Writers: Poets & Writers Magazine The Nebraska Center for …

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May 1, 2020 By Meg Waite Clayton

Paddling your Bathtub into London: How Great Stories End

I am working through plotting issues myself and returned to these notes from a master class I taught on narrative endings a couple years ago. They are just my …

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Handwritten draft of A Scandal in Bohemia by Sherlock Holmes

March 21, 2020 By Meg Waite Clayton

No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends

No Social Distancing Required for Fictional Friends Like many now, I'm social distancing. The good news for me is that a writer in these circumstances can …

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June 16, 2019 By Meg Waite Clayton

A new book by Madeleine l’Engle: Stories found in her “Tower”

The two books that made me dream of becoming a writer were Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. So the news I read this …

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June 5, 2019 By Meg Waite Clayton

On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day

It’s a rainy evening in Paris, just minutes before the hour, 75 years ago, that D-Day began. At midnight, RAF aircraft dropped hundreds of dummy paratroopers …

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November 15, 2017 By Meg Waite Clayton

Steinbeck on Struggling with a Scene

Another bit of great writing advice from John Steinbeck: …

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John Steinbeck on writing

November 1, 2017 By Meg Waite Clayton

Advice from Steinbeck to Kick Off NANOWRIMO

Today is the first day of NANOWRIMO, wherein some crazy folks try to write an entire novel draft in a month. I confess that is faster that I can write (and …

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October 21, 2017 By Meg Waite Clayton

Writing Advice from Ernest Hemingway on the Anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls

Today marks the anniversary of the publication in 1940 of my personal favorite Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Coincidentally, tomorrow marks the …

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Aaron Sorkin-Master-Class

March 22, 2017 By Meg Waite Clayton

23 Tips from Aaron Sorkin’s Screenwriting Master Class

I recently participated in Aaron Sorkin's online screenwriting master class, which I highly recommend for any story writer -- it is more about story than about …

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