What Helps YOU Be a Better Writer?
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By Mary Jaksch
As writers, we’re always trying to improve. Well, at least I am. Maybe you’re already perfect…
I’d like us all to collect a list of everything that helps us to become a better writer.
Please write in the comments what helps you, or what has helped you in the past!
Mary Jaksch is Chief [...]
The Art vs. Craft Gap – a Writer’s Paradox
A guest post by Larry Brooks
If you want to see a room full of writers go ballistic, right up there with a lynch mob on the hysteria scale, tell them there really is a formula for writing a novel. A list of elements and criteria that define the nature of the work.
They probably already know [...]
Five Tips (and a Bonus!) on How to Write a Fantastic About Page
By James Chartrand of Men with Pens
If you’re going to put your words on public display, it’s your job to make that content compelling, intriguing, entertaining or informative. If it’s boring… well. Suffice it to say that very few readers are going to be interested.
That’s why your About page has to be just as good [...]
Three Tips to Avoid Being a Boring Writer
By Mary Jaksch
Do you want to be a boring writer? No, of course you don’t!
But how to avoid it?
Do you sometimes read a piece that moves at an agonizingly slow pace? I do. Well, let me be honest here – I tend to read only the first paragraph, and then I put the boring book [...]
Writing Workshop: What are YOU writing?
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What are you working on right now: A bestseller? Your best article ever? A film script?
Maybe you’ve just finished something you’re really proud of? Or you just can’t tell whether it should get a Pulitzer or be thrown into the trash?
Here’s your chance to share and discuss with each other what you [...]
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