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  • Writing Tip: Use Your Brain To Become A Better Writer
    Anyone who has ever labored over a writing assignment knows that writing is hard work. While it does not require the same physical effort as lifting heavy objects, it is often very heavy lifting indeed. While it does not require the same physical effort as pounding metal rods into concrete, pounding on a keyboard can be just as stressful to your body and infinitely more stressful to your brain. However, writing does have something in common with physical labor and athletics.
  • Self Publishing Your Own Book: When Should You Consider It?
    Self publishing your own book is one of the publishing industry's dirty little secrets. Mainstream publishers, editors, and authors easily dismiss self publishing and print on demand publishing as a rip-off for both the writer and reader. After all, if the writer was a real writer then they could find a real publisher, right? That has been the conventional wisdom for a long time but in today's modern, technological society that conventional wisdom does not always hold true. S
  • Writing Style: Are You A Real Writer?
    I hear it all the time from my students and at the seminars and workshops I lead. The writers that I work with are excited to work with a "real" writer. Most people define a "real" writer as one who is published. Therefore I, with three published novels and innumerable newspaper and magazine articles under my belt, certainly qualify.

    However, the longer I am involved in the business of professional writing and the teaching of writing the more I question that definition. Fo
  • The Most Important Rule Of Writing
    I just finished a set of conferences with my students which inspired me to write about the most important rule of writing -- writing is a process.

    So many of difficulties struggling writers face occur when they ignore this simple rule. Once you embrace the fact that writing is a process rather than an event, once you recognize that the more time you give the process to work the better, then not only will writing be easier you will also write better.

    Writing is a process
  • Do You Suffer From Roughdraftitis?
    There is an epidemic sweeping through writing groups around the globe. Day after day writers drag their weary fingers and bleary eyes into my office and beg for a cure.

    The symptoms they describe are all too familiar:

    ~ Writers block
    ~ Disorganization
    ~ Frustration
    ~ Inability to create a coherent sentence
    ~ Problems with usually simple tasks such as spelling

    Sometimes the disease is only in its early stages and writers have a few pages they have managed to creat

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