We need to be careful how much we bend time and why we are bending time. Remember that every time we shift time, we can lose members of our audience.
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Jun 13 2016
Hate the Editing Stage of Writing? Check Out These Helpful Tools
Hey guys, Today Nancy Lin is here to help us with what might just be THE suckiest part of writing. But part of being a great writer, is also learning to be at least a good editor. We all need professional outside eyes on our work, and Nancy is here to help you get the …
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Jun 10 2016
Emotional Toughness—How Haters & Hurt Feelings Can Be GOOD for Us
The hard truth is we don’t grow without being uncomfortable. We don’t get tough without friction. And I wonder if this being comfortable has permeated too much of our lives, down to our “feelings.”
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Jun 06 2016
Write About Inner Demons Without Boring the Reader into a Coma
Some weaknesses might be fairly obvious—grief, betrayal or addiction. The problem, however, is no one wants to read 300+ pages of someone whining about a loss or a compulsion. We would probably want to smother such a person to get her to shut up.
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May 31 2016
Botched Beginnings—Common First-Page Killers
We can Twitter ’til we flitter and Facebook ’til we face plant and that won’t matter much in the greater scheme of things if we fail at our single most important job—writing a great book. Our single greatest challenge is to hook the reader hard enough to buy (and then read) our novel. Sales ultimately …
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