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Wrap Up 2021 and 2022 Goal-Setting

Science of Break-Taking

The Crusher of Dreams

Know Your Narrators

Writing and Kindness

So, You Want To Be an Editor

Reconstructive Surgery for Manuscripts

Getting Started With Bullet Journaling

Tropes I’m Thankful For

Handy Lists for Writers

Are You Not Entertained?

Drawing the Line

Literacy and Readability

The Reader Is Always Right

Tropes I’m Tired Of Spec Fic Edition

Evaluating Reader Feedback

The Mind Killer

Truth and Truthability

Find Your Creative Partners

Bad Cat Helicopter

Understanding Rejections

Specificity Trap

Redirection Insurrection

Evernote Templates for Writers

Shelf Life Year One in Review

Bearer of Bad Muse

Idea to Manuscript, Part II

From Idea to Manuscript, Part I

Quality Versus Quantity

Define Your Story With Four (More) Little Words

Enrich Your Pitch

What’s Prologue Is Past

Art of the Anecdote Redux

Reclaimed Language

My Big Inclusion Agenda

Tale of the Long Tail

Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Weaponizing Kindness

Descriptions and Depictions

For Love Of Money, Part II

For Love of Money, Part I

The Long and the Longer Of It

Editing for Fun and Profit

Five Writing Habits to Cultivate

Too Much and Never Enough

Going the Distance

Textual Congress, Part II

Textual Congress, Part I

Gaming the System

Find Your Perfect Publisher

Defeat the Blank-Page Blues

Sentence Structure Struggles

The Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Proofreading 101 for Authors

The Plot’s the Thing

Plural of Anecdote

The Best and the Rest

Fashions and Fictions

A Brush With Slush

Greater Than the Sum, Part II

Greater Than the Sum, Part I

What to Expect From Every Edit

Not So Many Happy Returns

Delivering Criticism With Grace and Kindness

Goodreads and Its Competitors

Meters and Feet

That Which Invokes Fury

Outlining Like a Boss, Part II

Outlining Like a Boss, Part I

Crush Your Writer’s Block With Four Little Words

Self-Editing and the Soul of Wit

Anatomy of a Book Cover

Writing Productivity Helpers

Sense and Sensitivity Read

Attack Your First Revision

Creating a Well-Turned Page

Mind Mapping 101

Mechanical Keyboard Rabbit Hole

Bang Out Your First Draft

Create Your Comp List

Tropes I’m Tired Of

Nothing But a Number

Take the First Step to Getting Published

Silence of the Adverbs

Further From Hone

Somewhere Over the Transom, Part II

Somewhere Over the Transom, Part I

Shelf Life December Roundup

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