Inspiration

5 Ways Maya Angelou Can Improve Your Writing - Maya Angelou speaks, a caged bird in her speech bubble.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Ways Maya Angelou Can Help You Improve Your Writing

There are few serious poets, activists, and biographers who haven’t taken inspiration from the indomitable Maya Angelou. A woman of immense passion and experience, the late Angelou (author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, six other autobiographies, and several books of poetry) could have given advice on anything from journalism to dancing to

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5 Ways Ernest Hemingway Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Ernest Hemingway sits at a typewriter.
Writing
Fred Johnson

5 Ways Ernest Hemingway Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Ernest Hemingway might just be the most imitated writer of the past hundred years. His signature bare-bones style has gone on to inform pretty much every aspect of what we consider best practice in modern writing, and he’s been explicitly cited by writers including Stephen King, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, and dozens of others. Hell,

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7 Ways Caitlin Moran Can Help You Improve Your Writing - Caitlin Moran waves at the reader.
Publishing
Robert Wood

7 Ways Caitlin Moran Can Help You Improve Your Writing

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 has worked

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Your Research Can’t Stop With The Internet – Here’s Where To Go - An author stands in front of shelves of books.
Writing
Robert Wood

Your Research Can’t Stop With The Internet – Here’s Where To Go

If you want to create something unique, research is a must. We’ve said as much before, but what we haven’t told you is that the internet isn’t really enough. To tell the reader something they didn’t already know, to mine the details that make your work feel realistic, to hit the third draft and suddenly

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