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Ghostwriters Try Steering Supreme Court Justices Away from Cases
Ghostwriting Supreme Court briefs is a little-known tactic that’s gotten some attention over ethics and whether the justices should do something about it.
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Tip sheet: Breaking into ghostwriting books
Want to break into book ghostwriting and collaborating? Follow these helpful tips from two industry experts.
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Ghostwriter shares insight into Noem book process
“Celebrity memoirs, they are fan fiction,” Lisec said. “You take a couple of details then expand it."
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Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
You need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. She has this new book, “1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round,” which is sort of the advice book equivalent of that friend who cheers beside a marathon route, tossing out enthusiasm and Gatorade.
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The Uniqueness of the Human Writer
The fiction writer designs a plot, characters, and detail in order to create an intended effect or meaning. The best a bot can do is scramble for pre-existing literary patterns and throw something together. Its “creativity” depends on the massive collection of human-made content.
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The troubling trend with ghostwriting
Internationally acclaimed ghostwriter and persuasive writing coach Joshua Lisec has ghostwritten more than 80 books.
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Voynich Manuscript Finally Decoded? Medieval Sex Secrets May Hide in Mysterious Text
Sex may be one of the subjects detailed in the manuscript – and that the largest diagram represents both sex and conception.
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My top 5 tools to beat distractions and get more writing done - or any work, really
To avoid distractions, I enlist a particular set of tools. Whatever your writing platform - Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, or iOS - help is here.
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Writing from the Heart: Just the facts, ma'am
I love Mark Twain’s line, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” So here is a story of how I let a good story get in the way of the truth. My motto at the point when this story happened was facts didn’t matter, feelings did. I was young, and …
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Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them\
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives.
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‘You can see it as a revenge fantasy’: The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible
God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss aims to shine a light on the contributions to Christianity by imprisoned workers
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How nonfiction authors can tell powerful stories
Margaret Atwood and John Grisham tell powerful stories. Non-fiction writers can learn from them.
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Let's keep our writing simple, precise, cogent and clear
But sometimes it's worth sending a reader to the dictionary if the word fits the nuance of the writing.
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Lisa Gardner: 10 Lessons I Learned in 30 Years of Writing Suspense
When people first meet authors, they always ask the same question—how did you get started in this business? I’m a bit a rarity. Wrote my first novel at seventeen, sold it at twenty, hit the bestsel…
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Sam Anderson on writing and drawing - Austin Kleon
The thing that unites good writing and good drawing — authentic writing and authentic drawing — is the exploratory line.
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I've published 60 novels - and these 5 free writing tools helped make it possible
From drafting manuscripts to tracking edits and creating book covers, I get the job done with the help of these indispensable - and free - apps.
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We Love Writing. And Procrastinating. Running Helps Us Do Both.
The two pursuits have more in common than meets the eye
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Co-authoring: twice as fun or double the trouble?
When it comes to co-authoring, what are some of the issues and complexities about writing a book with another author?
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Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov: ‘I felt guilty writing fiction in a time of war’
When Putin attacked, the novelist switched his focus to journalism. Two years on, he talks about his new crime series, life in Kyiv, and fiction as an escape from reality
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How Hiking 310 Miles Helped Build a Novel—and Taught Me a Few Things About Writing Along the Way
A few years ago, I set off on an adventure that would eventually leave me both alone and alone in the woods…for days on end.
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