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✍️ Is Your Writing Pretentious?
or, Why the Bean Mouth Style Matters - What's the difference between good art and pretentious ass-hatting? It may come down to one key element.
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✍️ No Words are Wasted
or, What Might Look Like a Drain on Productivity is Actually Proof of Productivity - Writers are like hoarders - we hate cutting words. *This* makes it…
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Reaching for the Green Light
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✍️ Zero Draft Writing
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✍️ The Advantages of Non-linear Writing
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✍️ How Do You Sell Your Ragged Heart?
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✍️ Why Writers Get in Their Own Way (and How to Avoid the Trap)
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✍️ Community, and How It Can Improve Everything about Your Writing
or, Sometimes All You Need is a Tall Glass of Water - How writing communities can be a magic, invisible elixir to help motivate you and make writing…
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✍️ I’m Writing in the Face of Doubt
or, How I Beat On, Boats Against the Current - I have my doubts, but I'm writing anyway. Here's how, as well as some ideas about how you can, too.
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✍️ How Do You Write Best?
or, Exploring How to Explore How to Find Your Writing Groove - Finding out the how you write best will make you more productive, creative, and…
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✍️ Gatsby at 100
or, Baby, Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Dreams Go? Today, April 10, 2025, is the 100th Book Birthday of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
✍️ The Importance of Being Wilde
or, More Proof that Having Fun Leads to Increased Creativity - Dorothea Brande's book from 90 years ago echoes through the decades.
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✍️ Are You Selling Out?
or, Why Pride Sometimes Comes Before the Rejection Slip - "Artistic integrity" is a slippery slope to "unpublished". How to take feedback and keep your…
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✍️ New Adventures in Planned Pantsing
or, Humbly Building upon Atwood’s Worthy Advice for the Innocent Pilgrim - A recent writing retreat allowed me to experiment with "Planned Pantsing".
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To Write with Wild Abandon
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