Writing Affirmation: I write to find strength

Life can be difficult, and all too often during those times we feel that there’s no way out or that no one is there for us. In the face of such troubles, we can find our energy waning, our desire t…

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3 Tips on Outlining Your Story

• An outline is the gas that my creativity needs to drive down the writing road.• Why you can’t get your outline into words• Outline your scene when stuck on what to write

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Streamline Writing by Cutting Perception Fallacy

When writing from a character’s point of view, authors should avoid the perception fallacy. This clunky kind of storytelling assumes that if a tale is being told from a specific character’s po…

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Happy Friday. Up early did some writing, some admin, and now it’s coffee time!

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You’ve self-published? You’re a sole proprietor!

The moment you’ve self-published a book – presuming you’ve done nothing else to set up your business – you’re a sole proprietor. That’s right, you’ve started your own business, ipso facto!A sole pr…

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The scientist laughed during the interview.

“There’s no possible way a theropod predator survived unnoticed this long.”

Then someone handed him a photograph recovered from a missing hiker’s camera.

His laughter stopped.

Because standing behind the trees was something evolution should have buried millions of years ago.

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I'm a goner either way but I do enjoy me a good game of cat and mouse. Not as the mouse...

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Writing Inspiration: It’s okay to do less

Write a little less. Don’t lower your standards but lower your output so you can spend time meeting with your friends or being with your family. After all, you can’t be a good writer if you fi…

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For me it would be either:
The Mongolian Death Worm because, well because they are 5 foot dark red worms capable of spitting highly toxic corrosive acid or it electric shocks you... I'll pass
Or
The Fresno Nightcrawlers, yeah another worm. What can I say giant worms creepy me out! But then who wouldn't be if you look out your window at night and some worm is slowly striding across your yard... Yup hard no on this one too

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The Burrunjor arrived before sunrise.
No footsteps. No growl.
Just the feeling that something large had decided the coffee shop belonged to it.

It ducked beneath the doorway with the patience of an apex predator pretending to understand human architecture.

It ordered black coffee.

Steam curled around teeth far too large for civilization.

“Long trip?” I asked.

Another rumble.

The windows vibrated.

It said:
“Sixty-five million years.”

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