To Write with Wild Abandon

✍️ 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.

Jan 13 • Graham Strong

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✍️ 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.

Jan 6 • Graham Strong

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December 2025

✍️ 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!

Dec 31, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ 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…

Dec 23, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ Mindset is Everything

or, How to Put "Failures" Behind You Like a Goalie - Mindset is very important. In November for me, it was the difference between 4,000 words and…

Dec 9, 2025 • Graham Strong

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November 2025

✍️ Extreme Zero Drafting – Thoughts So Far

or, How to Walk a Dog with a Long Leash - For #GraNoWriMo, I've developed Extreme Zero Drafting as a way to boost creativity and get words down.

Nov 25, 2025 • Graham Strong

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✍️ No Excuses! How to Not-Write without Shame

or, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason - All writers feel guilt or shame when they don't write. But we should let that go. Here's why.

Nov 11, 2025 • Graham Strong

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October 2025

✍️ Despair

Despair. A post about the real struggles writers face sometimes.

Oct 28, 2025

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✍️ Announcing… #GraNoWriMo! (Come Write with Me in November…)

A bonus post for you! #GraNoWriMo is an alternative to the now-defunct NaNoWriMo. It's easy-breezy, too - no pressure, and you set your own writing…

Oct 25, 2025

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✍️ How Podcasts about Writing Sparked My Creativity (and 6 Writing Podcasts That Can Do the Same for You)

Or, How I've Stayed Sane While Mowing for the Last 19 Years - Writing podcasts can provide how-tos, but I find they spark my creativity. Here's a…

Oct 14, 2025

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September 2025

✍️ On Pantsing and Editing and the Ghosts of Me

or, How I’m Still Learning from My First Attempt at Novelling - A post from the past! Here are some musing from 2017 about the novel-(re)writing…

Sep 30, 2025

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✍️ How to Change Lives through Writing

And, How One of Those Lives Changed Could Be Your Own… - I recoiled at the arrogance, thinking my writing could change lives. But the alternative is…

Sep 16, 2025

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