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Want to avoid common mistakes writers make? Read this article and learn what NOT to do.
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Stand up and say it with me. Hello, my name is Author Jones and I am no grammar aficionado.Is that gonna stop the Jones or you from writing? No Way! Y...
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There are six good reasons to use dialogue in fiction writing, and all six are equally important. Dialogue can make or break your book. Accomplished a...
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Oh, Author Jones… I just don’t have the time to write… Cry me a wading pool, sugar. Sometimes A.J. thinks that if people are what they eat, then a who...
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The barn was molten red, the cat had dreadlocks and my foot developed a humpy bunion overnight.
-Uknown, and always will be
Yeah. This stupid sen...
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If Author Jones had a donut for every time someone who said they were a writer yet couldn’t actually produce a single piece of writing came around, A....
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Readers, like investors, can be total suckers. It doesn't take much-a
housing boom, a bump in the price of gold, or a spunky protagonist with
a past... |
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ll the time, if you follow Publisher's Weekly or the biggie book
reviews, you get the message that you have to be a giant name with a
best-seller's ... |
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When a too-cautious writer of nonfiction sits down to begin writing a
memoir, pitfalls are looming on the horizon. The largest and most
engulfing ... |
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Intellectual stamina is the most valuable brain-skill that you, as a
writer of nonfiction, as a memoirist, biographer, or essayist, will
ever develo... |
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Here's the Scoop: Active verbs add spark and immediacy to your
writing. When the subject performs the action in a sentence, it is
clearer and more... |
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As the fall holidays approach I thought it might be fun to uncover some
of the skeletons in the closet of English writing. English is one of
the mos... |
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