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J.K. Rowling was the first author to become a billionaire through writing alone and was the bestselling writer of the decade between 2000 and 2010. Though Harry Potter has been put to rest as a series, his legacy lives on through films, theme parks, merchandise, and the recent screenplays and spin-offs (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Cursed Child). Beyond Potter, Rowling is known …
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It’s been said that all art is lying, but that doesn’t mean that all lying is art. In fact, there are a lot of lies that can get in the way of art, demoralizing artists and frittering away their time on methods that will never pay off. Even among these dangerous mistruths, there are three lies that stand head and shoulders above the rest as the most damaging lies a writer can tell. Not only are …
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I have a question for you. It’s one you may not have asked yourself, but it’s important, and it may reveal the exact reason why you haven’t achieved success yet. It could tell you why you can’t quite finish that first draft, why you haven’t got around to editing or redrafting, or why there isn’t some agent or publisher out there clutching your work, knowing it’s going to be the next big …
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It’s all too easy for writers to burn out. Whether it’s writer’s block or just one of those days, sometimes you wish that your novel would just write itself, or that that plot research would just be done already. If only there was an easier way. Instead of reading through the minutiae of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style or trying to analyze what it is about that latest fantasy tome that you …
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What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever Googled while writing your book? I bet you have some good ones. Writers are always researching the most interesting things in order to write with authority on a wide range of subjects. Research is a necessary part of writing almost any book, regardless of genre or subject matter. Some books require only a quick internet search here and there, while others …
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In writing circles, we commonly tell each other to turn off our internal editor in the early stages of writing. It’s good writing advice, but do we go far enough? In her book If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland says: Though everybody is talented and original, often it does not break through for a long time. People are too scared, too self-conscious, too proud, too shy. We spend a lot of time …
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