People are starting to avoid dystopians like they are the new literary plague. Why is that?
Category: The Art of the Craft
These posts are designed to pass along lessons in writing and editing to the next generation as well as be a source of inspiration when writers have hit the wall.
How to survive NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) begins today! A demanding feat only attempted by the most ambitious writers, NaNoWriMo challenges novelists to write an entire book (50,000 words) during the month of November.
Failing Better: aka, Handling Rejection
As a career writer, failure and rejection will happen. The key is understanding how to turn that rejection into motivation and a learning experience.
A Case for Clichés
It’s practically one of the ten commandments of writing: don’t use clichés.
But perhaps clichés do have some place in our writing …
When Less is More
A complete story, full of characters, conflicts, description, and emotion—could you write it in one hundred words?
Beating Procrastination
We’ve all been there. You sit down to start writing, editing or finishing a very important assignment and bam! Your mind fills with inclinations to do a million little other things instead.
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