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God's Dogs: A Novel In Stories, Mitch Wieland Jul 2012

God's Dogs: A Novel In Stories, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Ferrell Swan has fled the shambles of his life in Ohio for the vast and empty landscape of Idaho’s high desert. Here he tries to escape his past and its failures—even to escape memory itself. He seeks solace in sunrises and sunsets, wild mustangs and wheeling hawks, and the coyotes that roam his one hundred acres of scrubland. Through visits from his stepson and his ex-wife, through occasional contacts with odd and reclusive neighbors, Swan confronts himself in order to realize his humanity.

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Fiction Writing: Building Vivid Scenes, Mitch Wieland Oct 2011

Fiction Writing: Building Vivid Scenes, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Scene writing is the cornerstone of contemporary fiction. This podcast will briefly explore how scene came to dominate modern narratives. Our focus will then shift to tips on constructing vivid moments of real time in your own writing. We will break a scene down into its component parts, and consider how these elements should work in relationship to each other. We will discuss ways to build scenes in novels and short stories that capture the reader’s heart and mind. To finish, we’ll offer an overview of the larger issues of effective scene construction.

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Best Of The West: New Stories From The Wide Side Of The Missouri, Mitch Wieland Feb 2011

Best Of The West: New Stories From The Wide Side Of The Missouri, Mitch Wieland

Mitch Wieland

Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri is an annual anthology of exceptional short fiction rooted in the western United States. Five award-winning contributors gathered to read from their anthologized work.

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Interview With Mitchell Wieland, By Bob Kustra, Mitch Wieland Jun 2010