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  • 3 Techniques for Powerful Writing

    3 Techniques for Powerful Writing

    March 11, 2024March 18, 2024

    Today’s post is by Janeen Mathisen. When you read a story and call it “powerful writing,” chances are it affected…

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  • What Will You Sacrifice to Be a Better Writer?

    What Will You Sacrifice to Be a Better Writer?

    March 18, 2019

    Today’s guest post is by Beth Cadman. Before taking the plunge to write full-time, I often found myself imagining how…

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  • Revealing Yourself: Divulging Personal Information in Your Writing

    Revealing Yourself: Divulging Personal Information in Your Writing

    October 5, 2016

    Today’s post is by Bailey Belmont. Deciding how much personal information to share in your writing is something that every…

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  • 16 Tips to Help You Thrive as a Writer

    16 Tips to Help You Thrive as a Writer

    May 19, 2016

    For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive. From 16 Tips on How to…

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  • Juries: How They Work, How They’re Chosen, and What Lawyers Handle Them Best

    Juries: How They Work, How They’re Chosen, and What Lawyers Handle Them Best

    November 9, 2015

    Today’s guest post is by Karen A. Wyle: Want to write legal thrillers? Or put a courtroom scene in your…

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  • Creative Writing Prompts to Freshen Up Your Writing   

    Creative Writing Prompts to Freshen Up Your Writing  

    February 9, 2015

    Today’s guest post is by Tal Valante, who inspires writers with writing prompts: Ever run into the dreaded writer’s block?…

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  • Endings that Ruin Your Novel

    Endings that Ruin Your Novel

    November 7, 2012

    Have you ever read a great book that carries you all the way to the end, and then the ending…

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  • The Not-So-Long Good-bye

    The Not-So-Long Good-bye

    October 31, 2012

    Earlier in the year I covered some tips about creating scenes, and most particularly in discussion about your novel’s first…

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  • Altering the Quality of Time in Your Novel

    Altering the Quality of Time in Your Novel

    October 24, 2012February 16, 2024

    I don’t think I’ve said all there is to say about plot (no indeed), but I want to take a…

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