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Michael J. Barron

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Read more about the article 12 Strategies to Find Time To Write Your Novel

12 Strategies to Find Time To Write Your Novel

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:April 22, 2017
  • Post category:Life/Writing

Since we’ve nearly reached May and summer isn’t that far off (a time when our schedules fill up with cookouts, road trips and family obligations) I thought I would write…

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Read more about the article 4 Types of Novel Outlines: When to Use Them and When to Treat Them Like The Plague

4 Types of Novel Outlines: When to Use Them and When to Treat Them Like The Plague

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:February 1, 2017
  • Post category:Writing

  (Just for the record, I used an outline to write this blog about outlines.  So there’s that.) We live in such overwhelmingly controversial times but somehow whether or not…

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Read more about the article So I Quit My Job at an Investment Company to Become a Novelist

So I Quit My Job at an Investment Company to Become a Novelist

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:January 25, 2017
  • Post category:Life/Writing

  JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND…. Between December 2009 and September 2016, I worked at T. Rowe Price, an asset management firm located in the Baltimore area.  I joined…

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Read more about the article A Vital Lesson In Becomming a Novelist:  How to Survive the Slings and Arrows of Constructive Criticism

A Vital Lesson In Becomming a Novelist: How to Survive the Slings and Arrows of Constructive Criticism

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:August 18, 2016
  • Post category:Writing

  Most of us write our novels in isolation.  The story originates in our heads, and then we write and edit while secluded in our bedrooms, backyards, offices and basements. …

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Read more about the article 10 Things I Learned From “The Novel Year,” A Class At the Bethesda Writer’s Center

10 Things I Learned From “The Novel Year,” A Class At the Bethesda Writer’s Center

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:July 17, 2016
  • Post category:Writing

This past year I enrolled in a class called "The Novel Year" at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.  The purpose of this class (as you might be able to…

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Read more about the article My Sock Puppet Show Has Potental To Be More Culturally Significant Than Your Opera.
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My Sock Puppet Show Has Potental To Be More Culturally Significant Than Your Opera.

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:July 7, 2016
  • Post category:Essays

  When I was in seventh grade one of our school librarians (the scary one) implied that the only comic book with any artistic merits was Maus by Art Spiegelman. …

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