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How To Manage Your Relationship With A Book As You Self-Edit - An author has a romantic dinner with her book.
Writing
Robert Wood

How To Manage Your Relationship With A Book As You Self-Edit

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

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Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible - A writer runs past a line of pages, dragging a pen across them.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Why You Should Finish Your First Draft As Quickly As Possible

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. –

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Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore - An author reads a book, a question mark filling her thought bubble.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

Another 3 Writing Myths You Should Feel Free To Ignore

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

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Why Appreciating Your Theme Will Improve Your Writing - A Batman-esque character flies through the air, singing their own theme song.
Writing
Robert Wood

Why Appreciating Your Theme Will Improve Your Writing

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

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