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Staying Sane While Writing Fiction
Share, pin or retweet if you love writing! Sometimes writing can be so difficult, so terrifying, you experience a shaky, out-of-control feeling. You might be tempted to shut down that flow of energy and regain your sense of control....
- Posted March 26, 2015
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Personal Tragedies Can Be Themes For Fiction
Share, Pin or Retweet You Love Writing! Confession: I’ve had unshakable Blogger’s Block for about a week, and I considered offering up my spot to a guest more than once. None of the topics I came up...
- Posted March 25, 2015
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Should You Use An Omniscient Narrator?
Share, Pin or Retweet This Post If You Like Writing! Partway through writing my first novel, I had a terrifying realization: I needed an omniscient narrator. My novel was about a family paralyzed by secrets, where every...
- Posted March 24, 2015
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On Being A Misunderstood Creative Writer
Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing! I have this belief that creative people are more misunderstood than “normal” people. Why is this? Maybe it’s because creative people think outside the box (the truth is often...
- Posted March 23, 2015
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Ernest Hemingway’s Tips on Writing Fiction
Share, Pin Or Tweet If You Love Writing! Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and write. His...
- Posted March 20, 2015
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Stephen King’s Top 20 Writing Rules
Share, Pin or Retweet If You Love Writing In one of my favorite Stephen King interviews, for The Atlantic, he talks at length about the vital importance of a good opening line. “There are all sorts of...
- Posted March 19, 2015
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Writing With Emotional Resonance to Grip Attention
Share, Pin or Retweet This is You Love Writing! There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ~ Hemingway. Naked emotions? Like I felt when I finally gave up...
- Posted March 18, 2015
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The Top 5 Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Unprofessional
"Pin, Share or Retweet If You Like Writing." One thing blogging and good copywriting share is a conversational style, and that means it’s fine to fracture the occasional rule of proper grammar in order to communicate effectively. Both...
- Posted March 17, 2015
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There’s No Such Thing As Writer’s Block!
Pin, Retweet or Share If You Like Writing! I am a freelance writer in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've written for clients from Germany to California, all across the United State and in some small towns. I am also...
- Posted March 16, 2015
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Self-Publishing Is Easier Than You Have Heard
"Share, Pin or Retweet If You Like Writing!" Here's the most stupidly surprising thing I learned about self-publishing: It's really, really easy. I say "stupidly surprising" because I feel like I should have realized this, and I'm...
- Posted March 13, 2015
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Marketing Your Writing: Are You Social Or A Loner?
Share, Pin or Retweet This If You Love Writing! In publishing, we’re constantly asking writers—typically a rather introverted bunch—to get involved, to engage, to network, to join groups and go to conferences. I often find myself wondering...
- Posted March 12, 2015
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What Good Writers Do To Stay In The Business
"Share, Pin or Retweet If You Like Writing!" The difference between good writers and bad writers has little to do with skill. It has to do with perseverance. Bad writers quit. Good writers keep going. That’s all there...
- Posted March 11, 2015
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Don’t Irritate Readers With Choppy Prose!
"Share, Pin or Retweet This If you Love to Write!" A lean, lyrical style is an art form all its own. Just ask Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy. But authors need to be aware of the difference...
- Posted March 10, 2015
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How to Make $1000 a Month Using Amazon
"Share, Pin or Retweet If You Write!" 2014 was a great year for my publishing efforts. I had my best year yet for book sales, selling just over 3,600 books split over 32 titles, totaling over $11,000...
- Posted March 9, 2015
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