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How to Be a Writer: Five Simple Rules

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Aug 30, 2023 | Craft, Life

“Writing” is one thing. But “being a writer” is something else indeed. Publisher, editor, and writer Linda Richards offers five easy rules.

Does Teaching About Writing Change Your Own Writing?

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Aug 28, 2023 | Life

Was there a teacher who inspired you to write? TM Dunn talks about hers–and how she hopes she inspired her teacher, too. But she also wonders: Can teaching writing interfere with actually writing?

Writing Prompt: Eavesdropping

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jul 28, 2023 | Writing Prompts

Uh-oh. Your character overhears
something they should not have heard.
And now they know it.
If they reveal it, they’re in trouble.
If they don’t, someone else
is in trouble.
Write that scene.

Five Secrets to Writing Suspense

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jul 26, 2023 | Craft

Even the most highbrow of literary types need to create a sense of tension and anticipation to keep the reader turning pages–and Polly Stewart shares some secrets for amping up the suspense in your novel, no matter what the genre!

Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan

We boil at different degrees.

"Characters are born not of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility. The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them."

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