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  5 New Year Habits For A Writer

  Hello, and welcome back to Writer’s Life.org! It’s a new year, and many of us use this time of year to reflect on the past and resolve to make changes for the future. If you are thinking...

  • Posted December 28, 2015
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  Writing Lessons From Famous Writers

  Writing is a skill. It takes practice, effort and commitment. Struggling with plot, characters, descriptions and dialogue are common complaints from writers trying to get their ideas down on paper. Finding the time, and having the focus...

  • Posted December 25, 2015
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  5 Tips On Writing Great Dialogue

  One of the biggest problems fiction writers face is when trying to write dialogue. Great dialogue is so important in writing, it brings characters to life, it drives the plot forward, and presents exciting information to the...

  • Posted December 23, 2015
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  5 Steps To Better Revising

  Hello, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, I’d like to give you 5 steps to better revising. For many of us, the joy of writing is in the creation, being surprised by our character’s actions and...

  • Posted December 21, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To Handling Success

  As writers, we frequently deal with the sting of rejection, from agents (sometimes by the dozens) who politely—or not so politely—decline our query letters to 1-star reviews or negative commentary in blogs or social media. When we...

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  5 Tips To Create A Brilliant Novel

  To create a brilliant novel you need to tell a brilliant story. It really is as simple as that. 'But how?!' We hear you cry. Telling a great story comes down to 5 simple rules. If you...

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Using The Hero’s Journey To Organize Your Writing

  Hello and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, we’ll be looking at using the Hero’s Journey to organize your writing. The Hero’s Journey is a plotting device adapted from Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero with a...

  • Posted December 11, 2015
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  Using Nine-Cube Plotting To Organize Your Writing

  Hello and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, we’ll be looking at using nine-cube plotting to organize your writing. Nine-cube plotting—sometimes called Rubik’s cube plotting—is a way to organize the action of your fiction or creative non-fiction...

  • Posted December 9, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To FocusWriter And Write

  Hello, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today’s final installment in this series is a writer’s guide to FocusWriter and Write, two tools available to Android or PC users. As I noted with the Ulysses and Storyist...

  • Posted December 7, 2015
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  A Writer’s Guide To Google Docs

  Hello again, and welcome back to Writer’s Life! Today, I will be presenting a writer’s guide to Google Docs, the free online word processing application from Google. As before, I will go over some ways to set...

  • Posted December 4, 2015
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