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You’ve landed on the website of Nina Munteanu, internationally published Canadian SF author and ecologist. Nina is living her dream of the writing life! She is currently putting the finishing touches on her next science fiction novel. And if you’re lucky, you might catch her at one of her writing workshops where she coaches great [...]
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The Writing Life
January 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments
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The Novelist: Common Pitfalls of the Beginning Writer—Part 2: Language
June 18th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Are you just starting to write? Or better yet, nervously thinking of sending your cherished tome out? You may wish to do one more round of edits and apply these five things that I guarantee will improve your story:
1. Voice: This is the feel and tone that applies to the overall book (narrative voice) and [...]
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The Novelist: Common Pitfalls of the Beginning Writer—Part 1 (Characters)
May 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments
Have you ever wondered how an editor decides not to read your cherished tome past the second paragraph of the first page and has pegged you as a beginning writer? This used to really bug me… Well, as a published author and occasional mentor, I do from time to time read manuscripts (please don’t send [...]
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Darwin’s Paradox by Nina Munteanu
November 2nd, 2007 · 12 Comments
Well, it’s Friday again and time for my Friday Feature. First of all, a little sharing…Folks, my book, Darwin’s Paradox will be arriving at bookstores all over the world on November 15th, less than two weeks from now and I can tell you that I am unabashedly excited by it. Besides Amazon (e.g., in the [...]
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The Novelist: Finding Your Muse
October 8th, 2007 · 8 Comments
O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!O memory that engraved the things I saw,Here shall your worth be manifest to all!—Dante Alighieri, Canto II of the Inferno
As a published author of over a dozen short stories and three novels (with more coming!) I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. [...]
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