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There are many types of writing in the world: Article writing, novel writing, copywriting, ghostwriting, songwriting, poetry writing, playwriting, handwriting, typewriting, skywriting, love-letter-writing, rewriting…and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. All of these kinds of writing can be (and are!) very, very different from one another. And each kind of writing requires its own …
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“Writing is easy, you just open a vein and bleed” — Red Smith So you want to be a writer. And not just any ole’ writer, you want to be a STORY writer. A novelist, a wizard of words, a spinner of tales who delights readers with your imagination and wows audiences with your mind. Only …
I first heard about the Story A Day Challenge in May 2018, when I was struggling with poor health, poor finances, and concern over a family member who’d been hospitalized for a mysterious illness. The idea was simple: get a prompt a day, and write a story a day. And with 31 days in May, …
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So you want to write stories. But not just any old stories, no. You want to write powerful, positive stories. Stories that can change people’s minds and lives. Stories that echo on long after you’ve died. You’ve read writer’s memoirs, you’ve studied story structure. You’ve taken classes and purchased books like Save the Cat, On …
Have you ever stared at a blank page, wondering where your next story idea was going to come from? You long to be an amazing storyteller but there just don’t seem to be any good stories left for you to tell. Any great idea you get seems to have already been done — by writers more established, …
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You’ve always wanted to write a novel, but never gotten around to actually, well, writing it. Perhaps you even started writing, but after 30 pages, you got distracted and left it to molder in a dank folder somewhere on your desktop. You’re too busy with work, with family, with emergency car repairs, you say. You …
How to Finish Writing Your Novel in 90 Days (Or Less) Read More »