Professional Resources for Writers
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Podcasts de helping writers become authors
The Secret Ingredient of Original Stories
Are there any original stories left to be written? And, if so, how do you find one to write?
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Ideas for Constructing Your Own Writing Routine
Organizing my daily writing routine into a series of specific steps helps me get the most out of...
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Understanding - and Accepting - the Reasons You Write
At the end of the day, what's important isn't so much understanding the reason you write as it is...
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What Is a 50-Page Edit... and Why Will It Rock Your Story?
The 50-page mark is the perfect place to stop and remember where you've been, so you have a...
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How Not to Use Speaker Tags and Action Beats
Let's a take a look at two means for indicating speakers and varying the rhythm of speech and...
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3 Traits Your Hero and Villain Should Share
The more similar your hero and villain, the stronger your story, the more realistic your...
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4 Ways to Avoid the Pitfalls of a Writer's Solitude
As important as it is to claim large chunks of uninterrupted writing time, it's also important...
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Why Writers Should Take Their Own Advice
If you've ever found yourself wishing for a writing mentor - someone with the savvy, experience,...
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A Surefire Sign You're Over-Explaining
Over-explaining can manifest in several ways, but the core of the problem is always repetition -...
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What if Your Antagonist Isn't a Person?
The obstacle that stands between your character and his overall story goal could be any number of...
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5 Reasons You Should Stop Writing
Writers write. But sometimes, when they have good reasons for doing so, writers don't write.
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17 Steps to a Reader-Grabbing Title
What steps can you take to come up with your own perfect title?
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The Do's and Don'ts of Dialect
Trust your characters to be lovable without affectations, and trust your readers to be smart...
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Readers don't like to be cheated, lied to, or tricked. And that's where foreshadowing comes into...
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Be a Better Writer: Get Organized
If we can spend less time trying to find our favorite pen or our notes on one of our minor...
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Why "Suddenly" Is a Four-Letter Word
"Suddenly" has this ironic tendency to mitigate the very effect it's trying to create.
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Why You Need to Be Excited About Every Single Thing You Write
Sitting down to write, in itself, isn't enough. We also have to be excited about every single...
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Why the Reader Is Your Co-Writer
When readers decide to join hands with us, they are, in essence, becoming our co-writers.
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Authors should learn to spot the most prevalent sentence slips-ups and know when to eliminate...
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