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Writing with a Mighty Yawp
My next newsletter post was not going to be this one.
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Graham Strong
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Reaching for the Green Light
Or, How to Read with Intent to Become a Better Writer - the lesson's in Roy Peter Clark's excellent book on how to read with intent, "The Art of X-ray…
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✍️ Zero Draft Writing
or, The Power of Writing Nothing - Writing a First Draft is too much pressure! Zero Draft gives you the freedom to explore your creativity. Here's how!
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✍️ The Advantages of Non-linear Writing
or, How to Turn Some Happy Little Clouds into a Full-blown Story - Why Michael Ondaatje wrote The English Patient non-linearly, and how it might work…
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✍️ How Do You Sell Your Ragged Heart?
or, Tricks for Finding the Price You Need to Pay to Write - Some writers, and most definitely me, find it difficult to "bare their soul" on the page.
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✍️ Why Writers Get in Their Own Way (and How to Avoid the Trap)
or, How to Avoid Helmet Fires and Find “The Write Stuff” - Sometimes, we need to get out of our own way when writing's not going well. Here are some…
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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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✍️ 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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✍️ 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…
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✍️ Why Tension is Crucial to Your Writing, and Some Ways to Add It
or, How to Put an Elephant into Every Single Room - Tension drives readers to keep reading. But how do you add it to every scene? A few writing tricks.
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✍️ How to Fall in Love with Writing
or, How I Went from Hating to Loving the Writing Process - An interview with Stephen Merchant got me thinking about my own writing journey from hate to…
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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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