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As far as literary tools go, doubling and doppelgängers aren’t exactly the most inviting. Doubles can be difficult to define, and umlauts don’t scream ‘easily accessible’. Despite this, it’s worth persevering, because these tools are a lot more versatile than you might think, strengthening themes …
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An elevator pitch is a quick, punchy set of statements that you can use to sell your book to a publisher, agent, or reader. The idea is that, if the person you’re trying to sell to got into an elevator with you, you’d be able to deliver your pitch before they reached their destination. Of course, …
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Do you ever feel like an impostor? Do you struggle to take yourself seriously? Are you uncomfortable talking about your writing or identifying yourself as a writer? Andrea Sims PhD, author of The Impostor Affect, describes this phenomenon as “the inability of high achieving people to internalize …
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To gaze upon the accomplishments of Caitlin Moran is to flirt with a jealously that may take a lifetime to fade. At various times awarded Columnist of the Year, Interviewer of the Year, Critic of the Year, Cultural Commentator of the Year, Writer of the Year, and Ultimate Writer of the Year, Moran …
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Editing your story is, if we’re honest, more than half the battle of completing it. The first draft is a rush of creativity, but it’s in the editing that you turn it into a well-oiled machine that (crucially) is more concerned with entertaining the reader than acting as an outlet for the …
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People give up and put books down for any number of reasons, but if we understand the most common causes, we can intercept them during the writing process. As writers expend all their energy actually writing the book and expend all their sleep freaking out about publication routes, it’s easy to lose …
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