For Writers – Essays on Craft
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The Power of POV – Hansel and Gretel Retold Four Ways
Read more / watch…: The Power of POV – Hansel and Gretel Retold Four WaysJoin award-winning storyteller and author, Sage Tyrtle, in a delightful demonstration of the power of point-of-view: a retelling of Hansel and Gretel from four different points of view.
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Using Constraint To Quiet Your Inner Critic And Free Your Creativity
Read more / watch…: Using Constraint To Quiet Your Inner Critic And Free Your CreativityJoin award-winning storyteller, Sage Tyrtle, in a quick exercise that’ll demonstrate the power of using constraints to unlock your creativity.
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In Defense of Failure
Read more / watch…: In Defense of FailureBefore I ever started publishing, I met a short story writer who opened my eyes to the process of submissions. It turned out, you see, that you could write a short story, and send it to a magazine. Someone at the magazine would then actually look at your story and then send you a rejection…
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Five Things I Wish I Knew As A New Indie Author – video essay
Read more / watch…: Five Things I Wish I Knew As A New Indie Author – video essayVideo essay: award-winning, best-selling novelist and Reach Your Apex instructor shares the five things she wishes she’d known when she was starting out as an indie author.
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Surreality Beyond Cockroaches
Read more / watch…: Surreality Beyond Cockroachesby Sage Tyrtle Which proverb is Irish? a) Do not board a ship without an onion. b) Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. c) A foolish woman blames her own cabbage. Answer: Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. (Onion is Dutch, cabbage is Danish.) I came across this global idioms quiz…
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The Art of Finishing: Perfectionism
Read more / watch…: The Art of Finishing: PerfectionismStrategies for tackling one of the four basic things that cause you to stop working on your projects.
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Tips On Dialogue From Accomplished Authors
Read more / watch…: Tips On Dialogue From Accomplished AuthorsImage: memorable dialogue from the very uptight Tyrell Wellick in the TV series, “Mr. Robot.” As Reach Your Apex instructor and award-winning author Premee Mohamed says dialogue can be the most noticeable thing about your story—for better or for worse. Famed writing coach Robert McKee warns that poorly written dialogue can kill an otherwise great…
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The Three Paragraphs That Sell Your Book (No Matter How You Publish It)
Read more / watch…: The Three Paragraphs That Sell Your Book (No Matter How You Publish It)by Elijah J Mears Time to read: It is a truth universally acknowledged that an unpublished writer in possession of a good manuscript would rather peel off their own skin than market that manuscript. But alas, no matter how you plan to publish—whether you’re going for the long slog in the querying trenches or the…





