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Mary DeSantis

Fiction Editor/Story Whisperer. You +Me+Your Manuscript = A Team, and team's stick together. Visit me at kitnkabookle.com, and let's get whispering...

What Makes a Story Itself?

I got into a discussion this week with a friend about movie remakes. There are so many ways I could go with this. Like, for example, that I love to read fairy-tale retelling books but… 

The Most Fulfilling Kind of Exhaustion

Psst! Notice anything different? If not, that’s okay, I won’t keep you in suspense (especially if you’re reading this in an email and wouldn’t notice anyway). But if you happen to be on an actual… 

What don’t you know?

Back in January when I decided to start blogging again, I didn’t really have a plan. I chose the words “humanity, community, story” as the motivation for the blog and the tagline of my website… 

Acceptance of Imperfection

Despite having a degree in psychology, I actually quite dislike using terminology to define how I’m feeling. Perhaps it’s because the degree makes me more aware that I’m just plopping down labels that may or… 

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Normal

…because it makes no sense to do that if you don’t— Confused? Thought so. Now imagine that sentence had gone on for pages, but instead of whatever it was talking about, it detailed a sudden… 

Writing a Book with Multiple POVs Part 1: Structure

Writing multiple perspectives in a novel can be likened to the common idiom “there are two sides to every story,” where you replace “two” with however many characters’ points-of-view (or POVs) are used to tell… 

If at First You Don’t Make the Cut…

If no news is good news, then what’s news that isn’t good or bad news? (If you don’t know, it’s okay. I don’t either.) A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about my journey…