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How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019
By Daphne Gray-Grant
Topic : Fiction writingWord CountWriters Talk About WritingHow to Become More Interested in What You're Writing June 24, 2019 By Daphne Gray-Grant![]() Article Topics:
Out of professional curiosity, I asked first-time author and former Google exec Jessica Powell about how she created the character, company, and place names in her novel The Big Disruption.
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingDo You Agree With These Quotes About Writing? November 17, 2017 By Daphne Gray-Grant
Here's what boredom, blood and books have to do with great writing, according to great writers.
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingSeven Strategies for Banishing Your Perfectionism November 27, 2015 By Daphne Gray-Grant
Perfectionism should have been the furthest thing from my mind after getting — and recovering from — a repetitive strain injury. But I was reluctant to resume working on my book. It wasn't so much the pain in my arm. It was more my concern that my writing wasn't any good. Could that have been perfectionism speaking?
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Since 1991, November has been National Novel-Writing Month, when thousands of aspiring writers take up the challenge of knocking out a 50,000-word draft of a novel in 30 days. I don't know much about writing novels, but I have learned one thing: Don't call your opus a "fiction novel."
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingThe Life and Death of Fictional Characters October 27, 2014 By Michael Lydon
For ten years I've given my writing students at St. John's University this exercise: I ask each student to stand up and say, truthfully, their name, where they live, and something that they like to do. When they've all done that, I ask them to stand again and this time make up a name, a place where they live, and something they like to do.
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingThe Power of General Statements January 23, 2012 By Michael LydonWhat do these famous sentences have in common? They are all general statements. Continue reading... Article Topics: |
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