Category: Creative Process/Craft

For Beginning Writers – Conflict Creates Story

Without conflict, there isn’t story. Conflict is when your characters are established and then bad things happen to them. The more bad things the better.…

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For Beginning Writers – How to Accept [or Decline] Feedback

Giving feedback and receiving it are skills. Your ability to develop these skills will directly impact your development as a writer. Good feedback… Supports what…

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For Beginning Writers – Should I Show Anyone My Writing?

The answer is yes, absolutely. In order to progress in your craft you will have to ask others for feedback. But be picky. (Of course…

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For Beginning Writers – My Writing is Awful!

Of course it is. So is mine. This might be a great time to purchase a copy of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird and read…

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Solely for the Writer’s Use

Earlier this week I was working on the second draft of a chapter of a manuscript. As I wrote I inserted bits right into the…

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