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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.
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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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✍️ Surviving the Shallows of Your Writer’s Mind
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✍️ 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or, Why Pride Sometimes Comes Before the Rejection Slip - "Artistic integrity" is a slippery slope to "unpublished".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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✍️ The Writer’s Sketchbook
or, How to Write it, Write It, Write It - Artists sketch, potters start with a lump of clay. So why do writers feel they have to get the first draft…
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✍️ In Defence of Pantsing
or, How Putting One Word After Another May Be Power, But... - Pantsing is great, but we still need a story structure. Here's how we can have both.
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✍️ How Your Choice of Words (and When You Use Them) Can Affect the Reader in Different Ways
or, I’ll Do the Rolling, You Do the Detail - Giving readers clues, including through specific, charged words, gives readers context. Here's what I've…
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✍️ Surviving the Shallows of Your Writer’s Mind
or, Why We Stop Before We Find Cohen’s Truer, Realer Sentence - Sometimes we get discouraged before we find "our truth". The secret to motivation: keep…
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To Write with Wild Abandon
To Write with Wild Abandon
A Substack newsletter that motivates you to overcome your writing fears, build self-confidence as a writer, and have fun with your writing again!
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