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Seven excellent books for writers about writing. via 7 Great Books for Aspiring Authors About Writing — Books with Poppy

3 Reasons to write for anthologies 4 tips and approaches to writing for anthologies 5 reasons your story might be rejected Plus 3 red flags to watch out for #writingTips #shortStories #virtualBalticon via Writing For Anthologies — Morgan Hazelwood: Writer In Progress

The first chapter of a story has a lot to deliver. On top of setting up your main character, and their world, it also has to hook the reader. Get it wrong, and you’ve lost the reader–that’s game over! So to help you get it right, here’s some tips on what you should or shouldn’t… Continue reading How to Write A Fantastic First Chapter — Lorraine Ambers

The best articles write themselves. I’m not talking about AI or automatic text generators or LinkedIn message prompts; I’m talking about those wonderful occasions where everything comes together and the article just flows out on to the page. Last week, I was working on a complex, high-level piece that had taken a lot of research. […]… Continue reading The incredible automatic self-writing post — Is This A Bad Time?

You have a story to tell. Go and tell it. Don’t use excuses. Don’t find reasons to not write. Don’t let writer’s block have a second of your time. Go and write. Write fast. Write badly. Make it incoherent. You can fix it all in revision. via Just Get The Damn Words Down — Professional Amateur… Continue reading Just Get The Damn Words Down — Professional Amateur Writers

As I focus on my third novel in the “Blue Star Series” I find that I am curating more blog posts than I am writing. This is because there are so many posts out there. For me, there are few posts better than those which help you find inspiration, or dig deeper into the world […]… Continue reading What studying literature teaches us about writing novels — Uninspired Writers — Sarah Cathey

So you’ve spend a lot of time writing and revising a story. You’re getting to a point where it’s in pretty good shape. Maybe you’ve had some beta readers look through all or part of it. Maybe you’ve workshopped it. Before you release it upon the world (or upon literary agents), consider pausing for a […]… Continue reading Sensitivity readings: An essential part of writing — “Extraordinary Eruptions of Information”

With help from the #WritescastChat community, guest co-host Ekta Garg and r.r. campbell discuss the intersection of inner conflict and theme. Don your safety goggles, folks, because the metaphor machine is in high gear for this one! via Novel Approaches 027 – Inner Conflict and Theme — The Writescast Network

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” ~ Meg Cabot via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Wondering About Your Next Story? — A Great Day To Be Alive

Let’s be clear – I’m not casting the first stone. The first draft of this was called ‘Nine Ways I Have Written Badly’. I am certainly not without sin. And as they say in therapy groups, ‘If you spot it, you’ve got it.’ Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa, etcetera. Pride Pride (as any good […] via… Continue reading The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing — tobylitt