writing tips
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Three Things to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Writing
Call it Writer’s Block (even though that’s not actually A Thing). Call it Saturday. Call it…
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How to Say Yes to Your Ideas, and No to Your Need to Control Them
Not all writers bear the Type A label, but if you’re a writer who loves to-do…
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Three Steps to (Magically?) Turn Your Ideas Into Products
The most common question asked of a writer is, “Where do you get your ideas?” There…
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When It’s Okay to Use Contractions (and When It Is Not)
“Do or do not. There is no try.” Wouldn’t it have sounded weird if Yoda said…
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How to Take “I Want to Be a Writer” Three Steps Further
If you’re reading this, you might be a writer. And if you are, you’ve most likely…
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Refining Your Writing Style 90 Seconds at a Time
There are three reasons promising writers never get around to refining their skills. Reason #1: Money.…
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Three Ways Keeping a Journal Makes You a Better Writer
Everyone writes, often because they have to. If you’ve fallen in love with writing for pleasure,…
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I’ll Be Honest About My Writing Struggles (If You Will, Too)
The truth: I almost stopped writing my novel last week. More truth: things never turn out…
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On the Fear of Being Boring: Overcoming the Writer’s Greatest Block
If we only wrote for ourselves, would we write more often? If we didn’t worry about…
Meg Dowell Writes 
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