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May 21, 2021 World Building / Writing

World Development – 17 topics to brainstorm

Spending time looking at maps this month, makes me delve into world building and development. How do you build a

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March 5, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Getting Words on the Page: Writing Routines

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

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October 20, 2020 Quote / Writing

Writing Tip: Facts

Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts.  The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get

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July 20, 2018 Around Town / Editor Notes / Friday Fun / From The Editor's Desk

Coffee Shops, Caffeine, and Editing (or Writing)

Yesterday morning while scrolling social media, to glean ideas for the next (this) blog post, I came across a friend

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May 6, 2018 Did You Know ? / Editor's Toolkit / From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Master Outlining & Tracking for your novel

I just finished editing the second novel in the Bayou Talents series for Edward Branley, Trusted Talents.  As I am

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January 9, 2018 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Writing

Choosing the Right Point of View for Your Story

Point of View The Narrator’s personality and perspective helps shape the reader’s perspective, and how the story unfolds. The reader

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October 10, 2017 Quote / Words / Writing

A writer is… by Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words

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September 19, 2017 Language / Ted Talks / Writing / YouTube

10 TED Talks for Writers … on creativity, process, storytelling, and passion

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story Amy Tan:

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May 24, 2016 Language / Quote / Writing

Anton Chekhov on Writing

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the

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May 5, 2016 punctuation / Quote

Notes to Young Writers: Annie Dillard on Punctuation

Annie Dillard gave a speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This was the advice she thought

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May 2, 2016 Writing

Colors Around the World

Happy May everyone. I am sitting here in Starbucks, perusing Pinterest boards. I came across this infographic that I pinned

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