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  • Tips to Turn Sketchy Writing into Robust Prose

    Tips to Turn Sketchy Writing into Robust Prose

    December 5, 2024December 4, 2024

    Writers are hounded with the admonition to “show, don’t tell,” which is not easily done well. Showing requires learning masterful…

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  • Starting Your Scenes with a Bang!

    Starting Your Scenes with a Bang!

    October 31, 2024October 29, 2024

    Openings are a science unto themselves, be they openings for an entire book, for a chapter, or for a scene….

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  • How to Take Your Writing from Good to Great

    How to Take Your Writing from Good to Great

    February 19, 2024February 29, 2024

    Most of us writers aren’t content with just being mediocre. Just writing so-so books. I’d like to think most writers…

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  • The Perils of Purple Prose

    The Perils of Purple Prose

    June 6, 2022February 16, 2024

    This post is an excerpt from the book 5 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing. Robin Patchen…

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  • 8 Elements That Get Readers Invested in Your Story

    8 Elements That Get Readers Invested in Your Story

    August 9, 2021

    Today’s guest post is by Stefan Emunds. Readers don’t just invest money but also time and effort. They suspend their…

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  • 10 Tips to Writing True-Life Stories

    10 Tips to Writing True-Life Stories

    February 15, 2021

    Today’s guest post is by Brit Haines. Writing true-life stories is cathartic. The process is healing, and authors often say…

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  • 5 Tips to Help You Write Imperfectly

    5 Tips to Help You Write Imperfectly

    July 27, 2020

    Today’s guest post is by Adrian Johansen. As a writer, when you envision something you want to compose, it’s always…

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  • Capture your Creativity by Journaling

    Capture your Creativity by Journaling

    March 16, 2020

    Today’s guest post is by author and writing coach Catharine Bramkamp. As writers we often start our day scrubbing in…

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  • How to Make Your Sentences More Descriptive

    How to Make Your Sentences More Descriptive

    June 18, 2018

    Today’s guest post is by Jordan Conrad. The purpose of writing is to communicate information. This is true for writing…

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