writing tips
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Does Not Writing Make You Feel Horrible? Here’s the Good News.
You can have a great idea for a story, and not end up writing it -…
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How Do You Know When Something Is ‘Ready’ for Publishing?
Very rarely will you write a first draft and decide it doesn’t need any polishing up…
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How to Stop Making Excuses for Not Writing
You can tackle your excuses to the ground and tell them to back off, but on…
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The Benefit of Creating When Nobody is Watching
But … what if you don’t have an audience? What if you’re doing all this work,…
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Stop Saying, “I’m Going to Write This.”
“I’m going to write a novel!” Great. So how’s that going?
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How to Be a Better Storyteller
There still has to be some truth in there somewhere. Something that makes a reader or…
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April Almost Killed My Writing Joy … but It Didn’t.
Death by carpel tunnel and too many Google searches in one sitting.
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Why You Should Create Characters You Hate
It’s these kinds of things that remind you how much fun writing can be, when you…
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Here’s Proof That Life Gets In the Way but Excuses Mean Nothing
I knew going into Camp NaNoWriMo this year that April was going to be tough.
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How Writers Can Be ‘On the Internet’ without Living in It
There are so many writers who jump into debates and conversations just because they feel they…
Meg Dowell Writes 