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Self-care for writers: some tips from bestsellers author!
Back when I was in elementary school, we used to do that thing on Valentine’s Day where you wrote little crummy cardboardy valentines (often from Your …
Begin reading Terry Roberts' critically new novel
Gramercy Park, smiling at the sudden softening of city noise. In the past five years, as automobile and truck traffic replaced the rhythmic clip-clop of hooves and …
100 Random Storytelling Thoughts And Tips, Starting Now
0: none of this is true unless you find it to be true. 1. If you’re bored, we’re bored. 2. Characters at every level of the story want something — love, revenge, cake, whatever — and when we meet them we’d better soon know what that thing is. Especially if it’s cake. We can all…
How To Make The Most Out Of A Writing Critique: Ten Tips
As you are a Certified Penmonkey — *stamps your head with the ancient sigil* — you will at various intersections be forced to endure a critique of your work. I don’t mean bad reviews, though those will line up, too, and you will run their gauntlet as they whack you about the head and neck…
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On Sentence Fragments And Other Stylistic Jibber-jabber
I received this comment here at the blog: Dear Chuck, “Can you help me? There’s something I need to do, but I haven’t got the strength to do it.” From one Star Wars fan and student of English to another, I came here today looking for answers. Respectfully: I didn’t like what I read of…