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How to become a writer
Is the way you feel about yourself holding you back as a writer? This is an NLP exercise about creating inner alignment, about reducing the gap between the person (and writer) you’d like to be and the way you behave and think now. It can help you see how to reach your ideal future, what [...]
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Easy Writing Mistakes To Make
This week’s guest post comes from Antonia Chitty, author Blogging: The Essential Guide. Have you just started writing? Or do you have fabulous ideas but struggle a little with spelling and grammar? There are some common pitfalls that writers make that I see time and time again. Read this post and you will be able [...]
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Keeping Writing Alive
A few weeks ago I sent out a newsletter asking writers to share their stories, if they’d be willing show us snippets of their writing lives. Today’s post is Jennifer Russell’s answer to that question. Hi, Keeping my writing alive is the most important thing I do. The best days are those when I [...]
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Five Writing Tips for Improving your Fiction
Today’s super-useful guest post comes from Chella Ramanan, who would like us to please stop snarling angrily and gasping in prose. Writing fiction can seem like a minefield sometimes. There are so many things to remember. So many things waiting to trip you up and spoil all your brilliant story-telling. But that is part [...]
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What’s The Point?
This week’s guest post comes from Georges Sen-Gupta. I’d never heard of Margaret Fuller before this week, when The Nation published a compelling article about her*. It gave a précis of her life, from her hothoused childhood and precocious adolescence to her emotional and political flowering and premature death in 1850. However, there was one [...]
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TAP, TAP, TAP
Today’s guest post was brought to you by Rachelle Nones, whose e-booklet, Wrestling a Tornado: Overcoming Writing Challenges is on Amazon. Click here for the UK version, and here if you’re in the US. Are you afraid to fail? Writers fail all of the time. Are you willing to take the risk of failing to [...]
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Novel update 1: I’ve started!
Well. It’s finally started. Every large piece of writing I’ve ever finished has been terrible. I mean both in terms of quality and writing experience. I love writing but have somehow turned long fiction into a massive drama and go through week after week of agonising struggle to get through it. Actually I [...]
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Why writers should never say should
I’ve given myself time to write and come away to Bali to do it. It’s scary and arguably not sensible (‘are you sure it’s a good idea to quit your job in this economic climate?’) but I couldn’t be happier about finally taking my dreams seriously. I’ve stopped doing all the things I think [...]
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My Challenge: A Novel In 3 Months
I’ve quit my day-job and moved to Bali for 3 months. Cool, huh? It’s not a holiday though. I’m finally taking my writing dreams seriously. I want to come back having written a novel. This time is the best gift I could ever give myself, and I’m terrified and exhilarated in equal measure. I [...]
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The Secrets to Becoming a Freelancer