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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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7 Rules For Telling Better Anecdotes (That All Authors Should Know)

December 16, 2019 by Robert Wood Leave a Comment

7 Rules For Telling Better Anecdotes (That All Authors Should Know)

The thing about telling stories – the reason everyone thinks they’d make a great writer – is that we all do it, and we tend to do it pretty frequently. We don’t, for instance, all communicate by painting. Few of us regularly sing for an audience, most of us haven’t made anyone a film, but using words to try and communicate a compelling narrative that someone else will appreciate… heck, I think I …

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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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