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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.
May 20
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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…
May 6
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April 2025
✍️ 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.
Apr 10
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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.
Apr 1
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March 2025
✍️ 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or, Why Pride Sometimes Comes Before the Rejection Slip - "Artistic integrity" is a slippery slope to "unpublished".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…
Mar 11
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February 2025
✍️ 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".
Feb 25
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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…
Feb 11
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January 2025
✍️ 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.
Jan 28
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December 2024
✍️ 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…
Dec 31, 2024
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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…
Dec 17, 2024
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✍️ What’s Your Story?
or, How to Find Your Story’s “Why” - A good way to get unstuck when you're writing - or avoid getting stuck in the first place - is to Find Your Why…
Dec 3, 2024
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November 2024
✍️ How to Listen to the Nigglings
or, How to Recognize that There is Danger in Your Writing, Will Robinson! Ever get the feeling something's not right? Is it real or your inner critic…
Nov 19, 2024
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