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How a Bestselling Author Revises One Sentence [Case Study]
Want to become a better writer? Learn how to edit your own writing. Mary Karr shows us how to edit and make our writing more vivid and dramatic ...
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How to Use AI to Improve Your Writing - Darius Foroux
AI writing is gaining a lot of attention these days. But unless you're using it right, you won't maximize its benefits.
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How to Find a Ghostwriter for Hire in 9 Steps
Finding ghostwriters can seem daunting and overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how to find a ghostwriter that’s a good fit for your business needs.
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Are romance authors at risk from book-writing chatbots?
As AI-powered chatbots can now write fiction, human authors may have unwanted competition.
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Peter Drucker and Freelance Writing
A testament to creativity, scholarship, and communication
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Storyville: Some of the Best and Worst Writing Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
Some opinions (both good and bad) to help you figure out how to hone your craft and tell your stories.
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Virtually writing together: creating community while supporting individual endeavour
Lessons in setting up and running a virtual writing group that facilitates individual and collaborative work through a supportive community of practice
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From grief to gratitude: How writing changed my life
Dan's death and the pandemic led the author to discover their passion for writing and helped them find agency and emotional healing in their career as a doctor.
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8 Books That the Authors Regretted Writing
Authors work hard on their books, they don't always like the results. Discover 8 books that authors regretted writing and why.
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ChatGPT will fundamentally change how we teach writing; that’s a good thing
Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT pose a challenge to students and teachers, but also an opportunity to accelerate needed re-imagining of what we teach and why.
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Local author experiences healing through writing
The day she wondered if she could take off her seat belt, open the door and jump from a moving car was the day Jean D. Stouffer knew she needed to make a change in her life.
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How to be a ghost
Boris Starling learned that sports celebrities' biographies need to be five things if they’re to sing: five things that spell an appropriately spectral mnemonic (ghost).
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10 Tips For Applying to Writing Residencies - Electric Literature
I learned a lot from reviewing applications for a residency I once attended
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5 Ways to Break Away from the Daily Grind to Finally Write Your Book
Writing a book isn't easy when you have a full-time job. But it isn't impossible. Here are 5 ways to finally write your book while working.
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His 11-year-old mystery novel was a flop, until his daughter turned it into a bestseller
It took Lloyd Devereux Richards 14 years to write his first novel. But it was his daughter's 12-second TikTok video that finally turned it into a hit. Richards, 74, wrote Stone Maidens on evenings and weekends, in between working a full-time job as a corporate attorney at a Vermont insurance company, and taking care of his children. When he finally published it in 2012, it only sold a few dozen copies here and there.
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How To Start a Freelance Writing Business From Home
Freelance is a great way to get writing experience under your belt, and then you can focus on finding a permanent role as a remote team worker if you want or keep the flexibility of freelance rolling.
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Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?
On April 29, 1969, Carnegie Hall was sold out. The artist who filled the fabled performance hall wasn’t a symphony orchestra, or a Broadway belter, or a jazz star. It wasn’t a rock band or a folk singer or any hero of the counterculture taking the stage just a few months before Woodstock. On that night, more than 3,000 fans filled the Main Hall on 57th Street to see a placid blond man wearing a sweatshirt and sneakers.
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What Women Want? More Oscar Nods for Screenwriting
“Write what you know” — the age-old advice to aspiring writers has long been debated by distinguished wordsmiths and creative minds. Kazuo Ishiguro, writer of the 2022 British drama “Living,” has said the phrase “is the most stupid thing I’ve heard. … It’s the reverse of firing the imagination and potential of writers.” Does similar thinking still govern the studio heads who greenlight movies, the consumers who watch them and especially the awards voters who nominate them?
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Is Mick Herron the Best Spy Novelist of His Generation?
In his “Slough House” thrillers, the screwups save the day—and there’s a very fine line between comedy and catastrophe.
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How to Make Your Nonfiction Book Sizzle – by Writing Like a Fiction Author
Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd – to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.
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