Category: Writing Tips

  • Christmas Writing

    by Lynn H. Blackburn  @LynnHBlackburn With all the things we have to do during the holidays, it’s easy to set our writing aside. But what if we could incorporate our writing into some of our favorite holiday traditions? Here are a few suggestions that will help you “keep calm and write…

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  • Inspiring Quotes for Writers

    [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject=" @BRMCWC #writing #writerslife"]“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” —Catherine Drinker Bowen[/tweet_box]

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  • conversation and voice 6 Tips for Writing with a Conversational Voice

    By Katy Kauffman @katykauffman28 Like a textbook. That’s how my writer’s voice sounded when I started to write my first book. I could write devotions that sounded like a one-sided conversation, but my book sounded academic like the textbooks I had in college—factual, cold, distant. I knew I couldn’t leave…

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  • Writing with Regional Expressions Using Regional Expressions in Writing

    Some time ago, I was writing a story and used a variation of the sentence, “He wished he could be a fly on the wall when they had that conversation.” This puzzled my critique partner, who didn’t know it meant. She had never heard the expression “fly on the wall”…

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  • 11 Ways to Ensure You’re not a Turkey-Writer

    @DiAnnMills 'Tis the season of the turkey. If you enjoy eating the Thanksgiving bird, then you love the season. If you’re the turkey, well not so much. You’ve probably spent the past year hatching ways to disguise yourself. For the turkey, I commend his ingenuity. For the turkey-writer, well not…

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  • I Wish I Had a Magic Bullet

    I want a magic bullet. Many of us do. We don’t want to admit it, but we secretly think that somewhere there’s one thing we’re missing and when we find it, all our publishing dreams will come true! Right? In my quest for the elixir of publishing success, several years…

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