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✍️ Two Ways to Sharpen Your Dialogue
or, Ideas on How to "Show, Don’t Tell" While Telling
 • Graham Strong
✍️ Our Job as Writers
Or, the Joy of Things That Aren’t There - Have you ever may a list of things that aren't there? It's harder than it looks. I realized though, that's our…
 • Graham Strong
✍️ Why Starting the New Year with a New Keyboard is Making All the Difference for Me
or, How Full Circle is a Step Forward - What's a writer to do? When Microsoft discontinued its Sculpt Keyboard, it was the start of my long journey…
 • Graham Strong
✍️ In Defence of the Adverb
or, Why Merrily We Write Along - Stephen King says adverbs aren't your friends. He's not the only one. Here's why I think adverbs are much maligned.
 • Graham Strong
✍️ A Few Words about Em-dashes – and Why AI Can Suck It
or, How in this Case, I Actually *Am* Raging against the Machine… - AI has changed the way many people use em-dashes. I'm sticking to my style.
 • Graham Strong
✍️ Happy 2026! And, a Happy Announcement…
2025 Year-end + 2026 Year-beginning Review - Although 2025 was not the stellar year I'd hoped in general, this newsletter really took off thanks to you!
 • Graham Strong
✍️ Rise above the Slush Pile
or, Lick Your Wounds by Licking Ice Cream - A recent doc on The New Yorker underlines how hard it is for the average writer to get their story published…
 • Graham Strong
To Write with Wild Abandon
To Write with Wild Abandon
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