Pass The Toilet Paper Please: A True Story of A Writing Journey
A guest post by Lauren Sierra Thomas
How Did Your Writing Career Begin?
Have you ever experienced a moment or event in your life that felt like it was meant to be?
As if you were being “guided” in some way, being given a message on how to proceed with your life? Almost as if a light [...]
Why Rejection Letters are Great
A Guest post by Daryl Sedore
Rejection letters are great because that means you sent your material out. It means you’re ready (hopefully) to take your work to the next level. You see, here’s the thing; what if someone told you that the 37th agent you query would get you a book deal? You would be [...]
10 Writing Rules You Can’t Break…And How to Break Them
A guest post by Eric Cummings of On Violence
First, there was the “old school.” A bunch of stubborn grammarians got together and decided what defined “proper English.” Don’t end sentences with prepositions, never begin a sentence with “and” or “but,” and never split infinitives. They were strict, but they established the rules of modern English [...]
The Golden Rule of Writing
A guest post by Eric Cummings of On Violence
I learned what I consider the “Golden Rule of Writing” – the only rule that can help every writer – in the first creative writing class I ever took. Of course, I didn’t learn the rule immediately, or even in the first class. My classmates and I [...]
Flow to Done: Tap Into Your Creative Source
A guest by Everett Bogue of Far Beyond The Stars
There are millions of distractions that the modern day writer has to put up with in order to get their ideas out there. Twitter, Facebook, your feed reader, they’re all conspiring to distract you from getting your writing down on the page.
Did you know, when you’re [...]



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