Category: Writing Tips

  • Writers Look Here…

    by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan I’m in edit mode, so all things edit are on my mind. Sometimes, I want to tear my hair out over telling versus showing. I’ve worked hard to show and not tell … and yet little things slip in unnoticed. Take the work “look.” It’s a…

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  • 3 Ways to Brainstorm Ideas for Magazine Articles

    By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites  I never thought I would or could write for a magazine until I was asked to submit an article to a trade magazine. “What could I contribute?” I said. “Think about it and get back to me.” The editor said. I remembered an instructor at Blue…

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  • Don’t Be Afraid to Write Funny

    by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Laughter is good medicine, my friends, and we laugh a lot in my family. Granted, usually we’re laughing because otherwise we’d be crying. Life has been a struggle for a long season, but rather than wallowing in much-deserved and certainly justified angst and exhaustion, we choose…

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  • How To Determine Your Character’s Decisions

    By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills How do you determine your character’s actions and reactions to what is happening around them? Do you prefer writing easy and non-threatening scenes for fear something might happen to your beloved characters? Do you approach character decisions with the mindset of what you’d do in the…

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  • How Do You Know What To Write?

    by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel You stare at a blank page. Your scribbles are notes that you can’t sort out. You have journals you aren’t sure where to find what you started writing for a book someday. Does your organization of thoughts cause you to feel overwhelmed? I think one of…

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  • When You Feel Like Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough

    by Maggie Wallem Rowe Tell me you haven’t experienced it, too. You attend that writers conference or watch a publishing awards ceremony online, and those unwanted thoughts arrive faster than flies on an apple pie: I’ll never be as good a writer as she is.  Look at all those titles…

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