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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

Stories

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Kathy Otten

A View from the Overlook:

5 Tips for Writing Active Descriptions

5 min readJan 17, 2022

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A View from the Overlook:

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Kathy Otten

Polish Your Prose: Cut Those I-N-G’s

Polish Your Prose — Cut That I-N-G

3 min readAug 9, 2023

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Polish Your Prose: Cut Those I-N-G’s

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Kathy Otten

Action-Reaction: Show Your Characters Moving on the Page

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

6 min readJun 20, 2023

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Action-Reaction: Show Your Characters Moving on the Page

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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…

5 min readJun 12, 2023

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

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Kathy Otten

Novel Beginnings: Dos and Don’ts

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

7 min readJun 5, 2023

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Novel Beginnings: Dos and Don’ts

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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…

4 min readMay 29, 2023

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How Long Should My Story Be?

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Kathy Otten

Gestures: Unspoken Dialogue

Flavor your dialogue with gestures.

4 min readMay 21, 2023

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Gestures: Unspoken Dialogue

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Kathy Otten

Short Stories: Easier than a Novel?

Short Stories: Easier than a Novel?

6 min readJan 31, 2022

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Person typing on antique typewriter.

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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…

5 min readJan 24, 2022

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Hook Your Reader: Great Beginnings Start on Page One

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Kathy Otten

Make Your Writing Active

Engage your reader. Transform those passive sentences.

5 min readNov 6, 2019

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Make Your Writing Active

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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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