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8 Ways to Inject Humor into Your Writing
Everybody wants to be funny. Humor puts people at ease and makes them more receptive—exactly the place you want your reader to be. But how do we write it without it sounding forced or, as my kids would say, cringey?
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Never Suffer Writer’s Block Again
Have you ever sat down to write, and everything you wrote seemed terrible? Every writer has felt that way, at one time or another. Here's the uncomfortable truth about those critical thoughts: they can actually help you become a better writer. But only if you know how to recognize those thoughts for what they are, and then train yourself to have them at the right time.
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“Go With What’s Alive” and Other Writing Advice from Philip Roth
Philip Roth, one of the most important writers of the last century, would have been 86 years old today. He was prolific, much-lauded, much-loved (by some), and much-derided (by others)—but whatever you think of him, it’s hard to come up with another writer who has had a wider impact on contemporary American letters. On his birthday, the first since his death last May, I looked through some of his most interesting interviews to see what he had to say about the art of writing.
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9 Writing Tips from Author Pamela S. Thibodeaux
Pamela S. Thibodeaux shares her writing advice with us...
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Beta Readers: Who, When, Why, and So What?
Use of beta readers is widespread, but surprisingly little has been written about how writers actually use them and how they help—or if they do.
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How Writing is like a Good Brisket Recipe – 8 Key Questions for Every Writer
There are ways we all use to build upon our craft methods of writing a novel. We try new things to see what works. We discard other methods that we’ve outgrown as we evolve.
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Should You Give Up on Writing When You Have Kids?
Five and a half years ago, my writing career finally seemed on the verge of taking off. I’d just published my first novel, I’d finished writing Publishing E-Books For Dummies, which was to be published by Wiley, and I’d launched an online membership site for writers. Then I got pregnant.
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How to Effectively Promote Your Book in 2019: 5 best tactics
Effectively Promote Your Book in 2019 with thw 5 best tactics. If you want to promote your book in 2019, you can easily use one or more of the methods.
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4 Ways to Create (And Maintain) a Writing Habit
When I wrote my first book in 2013, I was newly married and working a full-time job. While writing, that dream of every writer’s heart whispered to me every morning: What if this is what you could do to make a living? As I’d done for decades, I silenced that voice of hope with a quick and definitive, “Yeah, right. Nobody’s even going to read this thing.”
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Hold On To Your Integrity
You lose your aims as fast as you make them I’ve seen many publications where they specify their writing goals and aims. The criteria for the articles they’ll be accepting and other stuff. But…
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How to Stop Overthinking Your Writing
Overthinking is one of the biggest things that holds writers of all levels back. Yep, even seasoned writers overthink new ideas. Especially if it’s a new genre or medium. But experimenting in new genres and mediums is one of the best ways to flex your writing muscles in the same way that when you try a new piece of gym equipment, you exercise different parts of your body.
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Here’s Every Reason Why You Should Fucking Write
If you don’t create, you won’t affect the world around you.
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JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
Exclusive: The Catcher in the Rye author’s son tells the Guardian estate will publish almost ‘all of what he wrote’ over next decade
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Acts of Reader Gratitude
Gratitude is one of those words that has become tainted and overused over the last few years. Gratitude journals ballooned into full-blown humble-bragging on social media, ad nauseum recitations of…
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What is Concise Writing, and Why Does it Matter?
Have you ever lost interest while reading something long-winded and rambling? You aren’t alone. Concise writing means using the fewest words possible to convey an idea clearly. There’s a reason why writing concisely is recommended so often—it’s excellent advice.
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Pay Survey 2019: What 1,400+ Freelancers Get Paid to Write
How much do freelancers get paid to write? Check out the results of our survey about freelance writing rates in 2019 to find out.
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Does It Pay to Be a Writer?
A new study found that most authors’ incomes are below the poverty line.
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Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite!
Not long ago, during an Amtrak ride, I met a college student who told me he was a fiction writer. I asked him what he’d been writing and reading, and he said that he was writing a novel about time travel, and that he was reading — well, he had been reading Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth,” but after about 50 pages, he said, he’d tossed it into the trash.
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Crashing author earnings 'threaten future of American literature'
A major survey of American authors has uncovered a crash in author earnings described as “a crisis of epic proportions” – particularly for full-time literary writers, who are “on the verge of extinction”. Surveying its membership and that of 14 other writers’ organisations in what it said was the largest survey of US authors’ earnings ever conducted, the Authors Guild reported that the median income from writing-related work fell to a historic low in 2017 at $6,080 (£4,760), down 42% from 2009.
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Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist
How to quit polishing and start publishing.
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