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A Bit of Writer’s Block Advice and An Announcement
Here’s a bit of perspective about writer’s block from an interview with novelist Alice Hoffman (author of Incantation, Here on Earth, The Story Sisters and many other novels, books of short fiction,...
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A Gem of a Website
A website that I would classify as a Gem is one that is friendly, easy to read, and offers good, practical help to others. Susan Johnston’s website, The Urban Muse, definitely fits that category. Every...
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Writers Helping Writers: Lisa Collier Cool
Ever since I bought How to Write Irresistible Query Letters, I’ve been a fan of the book’s author, Lisa Collier Cool. That book was a great help to me as a beginning writer and later as a full-time...
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How to Become A Selling Writer
Selling writers know that you can become a selling writer only by keeping at it. Keep writing. Keep sending queries. Keep submitting your work. Call it what you will — persistence,...
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More Word Wisdom from Lydel Sims
Today I happened again upon some yellowed clippings from Lydel Sim’s old “Watch Your Language” columns. You may recall I wrote about him and his writing advice in my earlier post, Remembering My...
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Some Basic Query-Writing Tips
Although I’ve been published many times since my first byline in 1974, I have a confession to make: I hate writing queries. I know they’re a necessary step in getting your work published, but I always...
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Writing and Getting Published After 50
So you’re 50 (or beyond) and you’re wondering how that will affect your ability to get your book or magazine article published. The answer? Depending on how you handle the situation, it should make no...
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Becoming a Business Writer
A long time ago, I used to be a business writer. After college, I began working for a business newspaper and although I came to dislike working for the paper, it was a great introduction to writing...
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Ethics and Writing — Are You on The Right Path?
Rather than spend time on the Internet over last weekend, I decided to reread passages from some books on my bookshelves. That’s where I came across a section called “Etiquette and Ethics” in Writing...
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Making Time to Write
Anonymous Quote: People always make time to do the things they really want to do. Many of us rarely have big chunks of time to get started writing, so often we don’t start at all. But there are so many...
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