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What I Need to Improve in the Next 6 Months

Day 7 from Writer’s Digest‘s “A 12-Day Plan of Simple Writing Exercises”: Write a letter to yourself telling you what you need to improve in the coming 6 months. I spent December brainstorming and...

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You’re an Artist, god dammit! Be Professional.

One difficulty in making your art your business is that often there are not clear-cut rules for how to act in that business. Norms kind of get thrown out the window when your greatest strength is your...

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What does your blog’s name say about the path you’re on?

Happy late blogoversary to all of you awesome readers! Can you believe I missed it? Writers, you can understand — have you ever gone straight to your computer one random Tuesday morning to hammer out a...

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How Do Authors Portray Death in Thriller Novels?

  My post for the weekly “Something Special” column at SevenPonds today is a bit of a crossover into my interests as a writer, so I’m plugging it here for all of my writerly readers. I think you’ll...

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What it Really Means to Be a DIY Writer

You want to be a Writer. But do you know how many ways there are to do that? Over a lifetime of dabbling that has turned me from an avid reader of fiction to a prolific creative writer to a scholar of...

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Create a Career in Writing That’s Just Right for You

In May 2011, I left my job and home in Madison, Wisconsin to move to San Francisco to be a full-time writer. I didn’t know what that meant, and I had no idea how to make it happen. Nonetheless, I have...

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99 Things to Do for Inspiration, Education, and Experience Before Your...

I am so pumped, I want to shout it from rooftops: Today is the official release of my latest ebook: A Writer’s Bucket List! Thank you, thank you, thank you to every reader for all of  your support...

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Ron Vitale’s Cautionary Tale Against Setting Aside Your Dream of Writing a Novel

From Dana: This is a guest post from Ron Vitale, author of the Cinderella’s Secret Diaries YA fantasy series. Ron is also the Director of Electronic Communications at Temple University and blogs on the...

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