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How To Write About Your Hobby (As An Author)

February 24, 2020 by Fred Johnson Leave a Comment

How To Write About Your Hobby (As An Author)

Hobbies come in all shapes and sizes. Maybe you enjoy arranging flowers, maybe you try to pursue amateur carpentry from your inner-city apartment, or maybe you can’t stop yourself from assembling and painting toy soldiers. Hobbies are great in that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re good at them or not; they’re things we do for the sheer pleasure of the act. What you may find surprising is …

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How To Write A Great Biography

December 2, 2019 by Fred Johnson Leave a Comment

How To Write A Great Biography

Ah, the biography – a form frequently mangled by those who think it’s an easy beast to tame. All you need is a person to write about or an exciting life, right? After that, the book writes itself. Wrong. While writers of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies don’t have to worry about thinking up original stories or characters, they do have plenty of obstacles to face: incredibly detailed …

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8 Ways You Can Think Like A Journalist To Improve Your Writing

April 1, 2019 by Robert Wood 2 Comments

8 Ways You Can Think Like A Journalist To Improve Your Writing

When it comes to writing, few things beat an insightful eye and an inquisitive mind. Happily, those attributes aren’t the sole province of novelists, and there’s plenty any writer can learn from journalism. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be looking at eight ways authors can improve their writing by thinking like journalists. If you’re writing non-fiction, there’s lots that’s going to be …

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5 Ways Sylvia Plath Can Help You Improve Your Writing

January 14, 2019 by Fred Johnson 2 Comments

5 Ways Sylvia Plath Can Help You Improve Your Writing

In every generation of writers, artists, and musicians, there are one or two who go on to reshape the public consciousness through their identities and legacies. I’m thinking, for example, of how Percy Shelley has been the foppish, sensitive face of poetry in the popular imagination for centuries; how, thanks to Vincent van Gogh, all passionate artists are wild-eyed and one-eared; and how, thanks …

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5 Ways Ta-Nehisi Coates Can Help You Improve Your Writing

October 8, 2018 by Fred Johnson Leave a Comment

5 Ways Ta-Nehisi Coates Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ story is an odd one. Until 2008, he was a modestly successful journalist writing for papers including The Washington City Paper and Time. But soon after, his Atlantic column and wildly successful blog culminated in the publication of his first memoir, The Beautiful Struggle. After attempting to pick up where celebrated author, essayist, and activist James Baldwin left off with …

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How To Write An Acknowledgment Your Readers Will Love

April 30, 2018 by Paige Duke 5 Comments

How To Write An Acknowledgment Your Readers Will Love

I really mostly just want to thank my wife… she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know. I love her more than I can actually express in …

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