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New Year’s Goal-Setting Redux

Stupid Rules Deserve to Be Broken

Requesting Effective Feedback—Effectively

All Fronts Matter, Part II

All Fronts Matter, Part I

Users and Enablers

Advance Directive

Post With the Most

More of the Same

Now You're Cooking

Tropes I’m Thankful For (2022 Edition)

Dialogue Versus Exposition

Lift Every Voice

Judge, Jury, Executioner

Raise the Stakes

Find More Time to Write, Part II

Find More Time to Write, Part I

Succinction Event

Marginal Gains and Writing, Part II

Marginal Gains and Writing, Part I

When the Muse Is Bad

Then How Should I Begin

Tense Situation

A Hard Cover Is Good to Find

MacGuffin Discussion

The Conflict and the Conflict

Zero to Sixty, Part II

Zero to Sixty, Part I

The Toddler Technique

So You Want to Be a Publisher

Costco and Whoa

Hurry Up and Wait, Part II

Hurry Up and Wait, Part I

Trad Versus Self: Deathmatch

Life’s Too Short

Adultier and Adultier

Story and Medium

Out of U and Me

Value Proposition

Tools Not Jewels

Book Report: The Ten-Percent Solution

Compatriots and Competitors, Part II

Compatriots and Competitors, Part I

Thirty-Second Rule

Let’s Tok About It

Hold Them and Fold Them

Momentum and Inertia

Writing for Dummies

Look for the Helpers

Don’t Overthink It

Concede to Your Reader

Make a Magnificent To-Do List

The Scalpel and the Sledgehammer

Flattery and Fault-Finding

Study and Experience

You Do You, Part II

You Do You, Part I

Visions and Revisions

Latin Lovers Unite

Creative Paradoxes

Compile Your Style (Sheet)

Messing Around and Finding Out

The Spirit of Submission

Idioms for Writers

Forewarning Is Forearming

Why Books Make It

Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Plot

The Written and the Unsaid

The Trenches, Part II

The Trenches, Part I

Middle of the Road

You Beta Ask Somebody

Weird Flex But Okay

Biased Language in Everyday Life

Till You Make It

Producing Your First Proposal

When Rewrite Is Right

Alchemy 101 for Fantasy Authors

The Discomfort Gambit

Reverse Engineer Your Vision

Out With the Old, Part II

Out With the Old, Part I

Manage Your Ego

Writing Pro Bono

Heroes and Antiheroes

Legend, Myth, Fable, and Folktales

Flimflam Fantasy Crypto Chronicles

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