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What Cultural Appropriation Is And How To Avoid It - Two samurai face off. One has created their own armor out of cardboard.
Writing
Hannah Collins

What Cultural Appropriation Is And How To Avoid It

Although a lot has been said about cultural appropriation since it entered mainstream cultural vernacular, accounts are often confusing. There’s a lot of emotion behind whether a work does, or does not, contain cultural appropriation, and those new to the term can often be left no wiser by discussions that focus on a specific work. In fact, you

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Your Complete Guide To Writing Perspective: Who, When, How - An author films a diorama from above, but also has a camera set up at ground level.
Writing
Robert Wood

Your Complete Guide To Writing Perspective: Who, When, How

Who is telling this story? It’s a strange question, and one that’s based on feigned ignorance, but if you give it a chance, it could do great things for how you consider perspective in your writing. That’s because by reconsidering a basic assumption, you’ll become aware of multiple decisions you already made. Maybe that just

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The Quadrant Method Is The Key To Amazing Storytelling - An author walks along, thinking of a circle divided into four.
Writing
Robert Wood

The Quadrant Method Is The Key To Amazing Storytelling

So you want to write a story. First of all, congratulations! Great authors don’t wait for inspiration – they tackle the job, forcing themselves to write and create. Not only will this enhance your craft and make you more susceptible to the creative muse, but it also makes it statistically more likely that you’ll stumble

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How To Always Have Something Awesome To Write About - A writer sits at her computer, imagining a dragon as she reclaims her muse.
Writing
Paige Duke

How To Always Have Something Awesome To Write About

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go… The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back! — Judy Collins The muse — mysterious, incomprehensible, infinitely unpredictable. Only one thing is certain about your relationship with the muse: you

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