Tag: writing advice
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This After-Writing Special Brought to You By….
There are so many stages to writing and publishing a book, it’s enough to boggle the mind. Not only do you have to write the thing in the first place, but there is the book’s description, and the cover, and editing, and rewriting, and sending it out to beta readers, and editing again, and tweaking…
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“Romance is Easy to Write”: Hold up, I’m Going to Need Some Coffee
I rolled my eyes when I read that. I can’t remember where it was, but it was a throwaway line in someone’s comment about writing fiction. That of all the genres, romance was the easiest. Because mystery has the mystery to write about and fantasy has the politics and the world building and literary fiction…
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I’m a Writer: A Guest Post from Sheri Williams
I’m a writer. Just saying that gives me a little tingle. It’s a good tingle though. As a writer, I sometimes hear and see memes/posts/pinterest pins all about how a writer is a tortured soul and a writer must write to set free the demons inside them..there’s a few other variations but you get my…
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Writer’s Block, Finding Your Muse (and Then Kicking Her in the Shins)
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve written over 50,000 words. For me, that’s fairly significant. Last year, I had a baby (#4), I moved up to homeschooling two of my kids (and I began some preschool work with #3 after Christmas). I did quit my job teaching dance, and gave myself about a month…