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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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If editing a book is hard (and it is), editing your own book is five times harder. After all, this is likely to be something you care about as if it’s a part of you, but even if the stakes weren’t raised, you’d still be in the unenviable position of second-, third-, and fourth-guessing your own decisions. Compounding these difficulties is the fact that your relationship with a book isn’t …
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If there’s one writer who’s (thankfully) incapable of shutting up about the writing process, it’s beloved American horror icon Stephen King. In his fantastic and much-quoted On Writing, he says, The first draft of a book – even a long one – should take no more than three months, the length of a season. – Stephen King, On Writing And, ever since On Writing’s publication in 1999, we eager …
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For a while now, we’ve been putting overly rigid writing advice under the microscope with 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore and 3 (More) Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore. Today, we’re back in the lab, examining more absolutes to see if they belong in your writing. Myth #7: Write what you know The reason for this advice is fairly obvious. Karen Blixen is far more …
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Theme is one of the first aspects of literary critique that we learn about in school and one of the first things we forget when it comes to improving our work. It’s an odd dichotomy so ingrained that many authors will proudly declare that they have no idea what themes are at play in their work. With all that being the case, is there really a case for deliberately involving theme in the editing …
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Today, we’re trying something new – namely, a professional editor is going to be diving into our (digital) mailbag and answering your questions. While we’re totally committed to a continued dialogue in our comments, some of your questions are unique enough that they deserved their own forum, so here we are! We’ll be doing this again soon, so if you have a specific question you’d like answered, …
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