For Writers – Essays on Craft
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FOR WRITERS: Six Tips for Writing Better Book Reviews
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: Six Tips for Writing Better Book ReviewsWriting better book reviews isn’t difficult. Here are six easy ways to improving your reviewing technique.
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FOR WRITERS: How to Write a Killer Opening
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: How to Write a Killer OpeningIt bears repeating, however, that the beginning of your story should check off multiple boxes. Those boxes are Character, Setting, Plot, and Genre.
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FOR WRITERS: Writing Down Under
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: Writing Down UnderAustralian writer Eugen Bacon shares tips for finding success when you’re geographically separated from the heart of the publishing world.
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FOR WRITERS: Avoid a Passive Main Character
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: Avoid a Passive Main CharacterOne of the biggest mistakes writers make, especially in sci-fi/fantasy, is the passive main character. There’s a guy—let’s call him Bob—who is suddenly transported to an amazing fantasy world. The world is awesome! There are dragons everywhere. He’s surrounded by unicorns. He’s dragged by ruffians onto a pirate ship. But things are happening to Bob.…
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FOR WRITERS: How to be a Word Machine
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: How to be a Word MachineHow do you do it? I get this question a lot. I started writing seriously with a goal of becoming a professional when I was eighteen. I’m fifty-nine now, and in that time, I’ve written and published fifty-four novels, six nonfiction books, seven short story collections, and ten novellas – all while teaching college English…
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FOR WRITERS: Thoughtful Use of Jargon and Labels in Fiction
Read more / watch…: FOR WRITERS: Thoughtful Use of Jargon and Labels in FictionWhen we use jargon, we think of it as a tool, a shorthand for larger concepts, so that we can move them around, let X stand for this equation, now we can add or subtract it. But in reality, jargon is most often used as a way of identifying in-group and out-group membership.
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For Writers – Self-Compassion Toolkit: A Conversation on Mental Health and Writing
Read more / watch…: For Writers – Self-Compassion Toolkit: A Conversation on Mental Health and WritingSelf-Compassion Toolkit: A Conversation on Mental Health and Writing by Marissa van Uden and Rebecca E. Treasure.
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For Writers – Writing in Bits & Pieces
Read more / watch…: For Writers – Writing in Bits & PiecesProlific and award-winning writer Steve Rasnic Tem shares how he manages to continue writing despite a hectic life schedule.
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For Writers – Apex Magazine Slush Reader Round Table
Read more / watch…: For Writers – Apex Magazine Slush Reader Round TableBehind the scenes of every successful magazine is a team of people who keep the gears of publishing grinding. The slush readers!
