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Writing Craft

Too Fast?

December 4, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  18 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

Anyone who is trying to build a career as a writer knows that making a living in the early years is an almost impossible challenge. But when a writer has sold a couple of books and had …

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Tidying Up Your Grammar

September 4, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  24 Comments

By Janet Kobobel Grant

I’ve been editing in one capacity or another all of my adult life. Why, I just finished editing my grandson’s résumé for his first job out of college. And I’ve edited all sorts of work-related documents, …

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Quick Character Labels

March 17, 2019 //  by Wendy Lawton//  10 Comments

By Wendy Lawton

I was reading a fiction manuscript last week that quickly described a character as a cripple. I winced when I read the word and stopped to think about why I had such an immediate revulsion. After all, …

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A Manuscript’s Death Knell

March 13, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  18 Comments

by Janet Kobobel Grant

I’ve previously extolled the benefits for me in reading Publishers Weekly. Each issue I peruse provides me with some insight or confirms I’m correct (or that I’m incorrect) about some aspect of publishing. Because publishing is …

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Among a Writer’s Most Potent Words

March 6, 2019 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  18 Comments

blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

What are among a writer’s most potent words? Which ones will have an impact beyond what a writer can imagine?

Some might guess it’s the exquisite words: THE END.

But it’s actually the words that come after…

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Steady On

October 30, 2018 //  by Wendy Lawton//  13 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

A few years ago I accompanied Julie Klassen, one of my authors, on a week-long book tour. One of the best things about spending time in bookstores is that, among all the readers there to get autographs, …

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An Innovative Approach–Case Study

September 6, 2018 //  by Wendy Lawton//  19 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

What do publishers and agents mean when they say they are looking for books that approach the subject in a new way or books that are innovative? We already know that books that are a rehash of …

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Establishing Healthy Habits for Writers

August 27, 2018 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  32 Comments

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Healthy writer habits?

No, this isn’t a blog post about walking away from the computer at the top of every hour, although that’s a good idea. It’s not about finding healthy snack alternatives for deadline week. Also …

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Book Inventory

August 8, 2018 //  by Cynthia Ruchti//  40 Comments

blogger: Cynthia Ruchti

inventory CynthiaBook inventory. It had to happen eventually. When solid wood shelves sag like a swayback horse and avalanches have nothing to do with snow, it’s time to either buy more bookshelves or take inventory of what must …

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Fiction Techniques

August 1, 2018 //  by Wendy Lawton//  11 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

Today I’m just going to highlight a few techniques I love finding in fiction.

Beats— This is a technique the author uses to seamlessly substitute an action that identifies the character in place of the tired …

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