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How to be A Rock Star Author: Five Things Playing in Bands Taught Me About Writing
Can being a real rock star help you become a rock star author? Novelist (and bass player) Clea Simon reveals how “on stage” can go onto the page.
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How To Outline Your Novel. Or Not.
USA Today bestseller Hank Phillippi Ryan was an unshakable panster. And then one day, she made an outline. What happened next was a shocker.
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Keeping It Real: Suspend Your Disbelief…
Suspension of Disbelief is an example of an industry term of art that gets thrown around a lot, but is rarely explained…so let’s dig in and break it down!
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Writing Faith in Fiction
Thriller writer, co-author, and Navy veteran Jeffrey Wilson talks “Writing Faith in Fiction” in this week’s guest post on Career Authors.
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Does Your Writing Have the X Factor?
These days, a creative approach is more important than ever. Here’s how to harness the X factor—and set your writing free.
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CO-AUTHOR 101: The mindset you need to make collaboration work
When two writers work well together, such a collaboration can prove fun and lucrative–and a hedge against the loneliness of this calling. Experienced co-author José H. Bográn and friends on on how to make your collaboration work.
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WRITING ABOUT THE PANDEMIC—OR NOT?
The uncertainty of life during the pandemic has affected everyone in the book business—writers, editors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, reviewers. Agent and USA TODAY bestselling author Paula Munier explores the ways in which writers are handling the pandemic in their fiction.
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Does Likability Matter?
USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan asks: What does relatable mean? And it does relatable necessarily mean likable? When writing a main character, how much does likability matter?
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Writing Prompt: Through The Eyes of a Child
Writing Prompt: Write a scene from a child’s point of view
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Developmental Editing — Embracing Editing (Part 2 of 2)
The purpose of the developmental edit is for an experienced editor to provide detailed, all-encompassing feedback as well as honest, constructive counsel to the author. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how this partnership is supposed to work.
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