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Kathy Otten

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A Place in Your Heart

A Place in Your Heart

A feisty nurse struggling for respect in a man's world, and a brilliant surgeon struggling to be seen as a man.

2018

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Kathy Otten

A View from the Overlook:

5 Tips for Writing Active Descriptions

Jan 17, 2022

A View from the Overlook:

Jan 17, 2022

Kathy Otten

Polish Your Prose: Cut Those I-N-G’s

Polish Your Prose — Cut That I-N-G

Aug 9, 2023

Polish Your Prose: Cut Those I-N-G’s

Aug 9, 2023

Kathy Otten

Action-Reaction: Show Your Characters Moving on the Page

Action-Reaction: Show Your Characters Moving on the Page.

Jun 20, 2023

Action-Reaction: Show Your Characters Moving on the Page

Jun 20, 2023

Kathy Otten

Turn off the Inner Critic: Stop Judging Yourself as a Writer

We all write different things, novels, short stories, memoirs, poetry, and so on. The problem is that while we’re doing this thing we love…

Jun 12, 2023

Turn off the Inner Critic: Stop Judging Yourself as a Writer

Jun 12, 2023

Kathy Otten

Novel Beginnings: Dos and Don’ts

Great Novel Beginnings: Do’s and Don’t’s

Jun 5, 2023

Novel Beginnings: Dos and Don’ts

Jun 5, 2023

Kathy Otten

How Long Should My Story Be?

We are all story tellers. We share stories of work and school with our friends and family when we’re at home. We share stories of our kids…

May 29, 2023

How Long Should My Story Be?

May 29, 2023

Kathy Otten

Gestures: Unspoken Dialogue

Flavor your dialogue with gestures.

May 21, 2023

Gestures: Unspoken Dialogue

May 21, 2023

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Short Stories: Easier than a Novel?

Short Stories: Easier than a Novel?

Jan 31, 2022

Person typing on antique typewriter.

Jan 31, 2022

Kathy Otten

Hook Your Reader: Great Beginnings Start on Page One

In fiction, the most important part of the book is the opening. The reader needs to be intrigued by the second, and some say the first…

Jan 24, 2022

Hook Your Reader: Great Beginnings Start on Page One

Jan 24, 2022

Kathy Otten

Make Your Writing Active

Engage your reader. Transform those passive sentences.

Nov 6, 2019

Make Your Writing Active

Nov 6, 2019

Kathy Otten

Kathy Otten

Book Author

Bio: Kathy Otten is the published author of multiple historical romance novels, novellas, and short stories. She is a book coach and free-lance editor.

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