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How to Get Better as a Writer Every Day — and write like Stephen King
Read Time: 5 minutesI used to think Stephen King was an idiot. Years ago I consumed King’s memoir, On Writing, which offered advice for...
10 Tenets for Every Writer Who Wants to Quit Their 9-5 Some Day
Read Time: 2 minutesMy boss wouldn’t let me choose the cream cheese. We were getting bagels for a sales training. I grabbed the strawberry...
10 Strange Rituals that Famous Writers Use to Fuel the Muse
Read Time: 2 minutesWant to be a more productive writer? Maybe all you need is a different approach to free your creative spirit? Here are...
Are You Guilty of Hoarding This Valuable Asset?
Read Time: 2 minutesI married a bone collector. This revelation came to light when I opened a drawer and discovered a pile of teeth....
How to Find Your Writing Voice Without a Single Keystroke
Read Time: 4 minutesWould you rather be famous for: 1/ WHAT you write about or2/ HOW your voice sings on the page Both can be yours....
Overcome Writer’s Block Anytime Using this Simple Move
Read Time: 2+ minutesI look like a rabid beast when I dance. Legs twitch. Elbows fly. Hips don’t lie. What’s crazy is that I feel the...
Two Questions You Must Answer to Reach Your Creative Potential
Read Time: 2 minutesTonight I am camping at a lake in the wilderness. I used to compare camping to being on an unfilmed episode of Naked...
The Missing Piece You Need to Fast-Track Your Craft
Read Time: 2 minutesI must accept the feedback you gave me. Because in last week’s survey... You said what you’d like to see from me in...
6 Mind Tricks that Make Readers Love Your Writing
Read Time: 4 minutesDo it. Please… There, I just gave you one mind trick in the above lines. I just gave you another. Are they working? I...
What to Do When the World is Plotting Against You
Read Time: 3 minutes Hair was never a good look for me. Photographic evidence surfaced when I showed my kids this photo from a high school...
The Creative Secret to Hooking Readers on Page One
Read Time: 4 minutesMy pants malfunctioned in the bathroom. I blame Kenneth Cole, not user error. Because minutes before a business...
3 Ways to Make Your Story Stand Out Even if Somebody Steals Your Idea
Read Time: 4 minutesI stole the money. Five bucks here. Ten there. Twenty was rare. But she never seemed to notice, so I kept making...
An Open Letter from Your Villain
Read Time: 1 minuteTo whom it should concern: I’m the devil you need but don’t want to exist. Don’t dare challenge that. Why else would...
11 Ways to Give Your Fiction Writing an Unfair Advantage
Read Time: 3 minutesWant to write stories that make readers lose sleep? The kind of stories that earn you five-star reviews, book awards,...