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It was 5 am in Jerusalem and 8 pm Vancouver local time on November 2nd<\/sup>, 2021 when Rena Rossner joined the North Shore Writers Association, for a Zoom meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t even have to go anywhere, yet I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d join at first. I may have Jewish friends, but I don\u2019t write fiction. The hook, however, was that Rena Rossner is an author and a literary agent, and I am currently querying agents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She would talk about her last novel The Light of the Midnight Stars<\/em>, \u201ca lush, evocative combination of fantasy, history, and Jewish folklore.\u201d And there is always something to glean from other writers, of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or their subgenres\u2014search for a list of writing genres<\/em>, and Wikipedia will give you hundreds of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every writer has a style, method, and habits that draw inspiration. It depends on how the mind works. Rossner demystified the compulsory outline. Although immutable basics such as the narrative arc\u2014in brief, every story must have a beginning, a middle, and a logical end\u2014an outline is my sure way to a mental block. Instead, the working title and subtitle are my guiding lights. That Rossner is no different was reassuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n