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How To Write An Acknowledgment Your Readers Will Love - A reader opens a book and hearts spill out.
Writing
Paige Duke

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

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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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How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story - A character pedals a bike, the front basket laden with packages.
Writing
Robert Wood

How (And When) To Stop Front-Loading Your Story

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 author. The technical,

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The Better Way To End Your Scene - A cowboy rides off into the sunset.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

The Better Way To End Your Scene (With Exercises)

The beginning and the end. More writers have had more aneurysms over bookending their stories and sections than just about anything else. We recently covered the Dreaded First Line; today I’d like to tackle the Dreaded Last Line(s)… of each scene. Whether it’s writing too little or too much, authors of every stripe tend to

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