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3 Helpful Tool Types For Writers
The modern writing world is very much a blessing and a curse.
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Alan Moore Advises New Writers to Self-Publish Because Big Publishers Suck
At an anti-library closure protest, local magician and comics legend Alan Moore had some surprising words for those who hope to break into the wide world of published writing.
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Being a crime writer doesn’t mean I condone murder. Do I even have to say it?
Every now and then I encounter people who can’t suspend disbelief. They ask how I can write about ‘such terrible things’
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What I Feel When My Daughter Tells Me She Wants to Be a Writer
My seven-year-old daughter wants to become a writer when she grows up.
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Success Requires Discomfort (But Don’t Worry, It Won’t Kill You)
Careful is the enemy of extraordinary.
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How To Develop Your Writing Voice
And how I have developed mine
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One Neat Trick to Writing Great Mystery Plots
The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.
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Teen writes book with 84-year-old favourite author
US writer Carolyn Meyer was "blown away" by Taryn Everdeen's fan letter.
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How To Write Up To 5,000 Words per Day
The routine that allows me to stay prolific
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David Mitchell announces Utopia Avenue, his first novel in five years
Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is to tackle the story of “the strangest British band you’ve never heard of” in his first novel for five years, Utopia Avenue. Announcing the book, which will be released next June, Mitchell quoted the maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, saying that Utopia Avenue stemmed from it.
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Write to Express, Not to Impress
18 quick fixes to sharpen your writing
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Habits of Highly Effective Writers
Some always outline; others never do. Some write in cafes; others don’t leave the house. Here’s a peek at the writing routines of authors on this week’s best-seller lists.
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7 Pieces of Terrible Writing Advice You Should Never Follow
Why you can’t just write about whatever and should avoid the number six.
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How I Got Featured on “Business Insider” Without Pitching Them
A syndication story five years in the making.
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How To Sell With Words, Even If You Suck at Writing
Use the SCRUB framework to craft powerful fantasies for your readers and customers
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The Art of Finding Ideas
Where do we turn for content ideas that work, move, and persuade? In short, we steal them. Here are two of the most significant idea repositories on Earth.
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6 Rules to Pump Up Your Writing
When considering who gives out the best writing advice in the world, the first name that pops up might not be Arnold Schwarzenegger. But a decade ago, Schwarzenegger presented his “6 Rules of Success” in a now-famous commencement speech at the University of Southern California. And these rules just might hold the key to your success as a writer.
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Unusual Writing Tips
There is nothing more annoying for a writer than reading a list of rules that another writer has come up with and feeling if you don’t comply with them, that somehow you are failure. It is even more annoying when you try them and they just don’t work for you. What follows are just tips. You have my permission to dismiss every single one as nonsense but I hope you’ll find at least one thing helpful here.
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Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?
During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.
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Things You Can’t Be if You Want to Be a Writer
I’m in a lot of Facebook writer groups and it sometimes surprises me what “writers” say or ask. Some make me wonder why they are in a writer’s group. Here is my compilation of all the things you can’t be if you want to be a writer.
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