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A Guide to Creative Writing
How to Develop Your Creative Writing Process
Writing experts often want us to believe that there is only one worthwhile creative writing process. It usually goes something like this: Brainstorm Research Outline Rough draft...
How Developmental Editing Improves Your Writing
We usually think of editing as a process that cleans up our grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure. But developmental editing is a little different. A...
The Only Two Writing Tips You’ll Ever Need: Read and Write
I love collecting writing tips. You never know when you're going to stumble across a golden nugget of wisdom that will make your writing richer and more vibrant. One of the...
Writing Resources: Wired for Story
This post contains affiliate links that earn commissions from qualifying purchases. Are you a storyteller? Do you want to be one? Then I suggest you pick up a copy of Wired for...
100 Poetry Prompts
My first love in writing was poetry. In my early teens, writing poetry was a creative and cathartic way to explore my ideas and vent my emotions. Writing poetry was accessible --...
Fiction Writing Exercises: Narrative Arcs
Today's fiction writing exercise is an excerpt from my book, Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises. This one focuses on story structure and examines narrative arcs within...

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