Mastodawn

Have a new blog or thinking about starting one? Read this first!

"Striking the right tone is an essential part of marketing. It can be the difference between reaching your target audience with your blog and reaching no one at all."

https://popediting.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/your-writing-tone-articles-vs-blog-posts/

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Venessa G 3h ago

How to Turn Silence Into Story: Writing as a Black Woman Who Refuses to Be Quiet
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How to Turn Silence Into Story: Writing as a Black Woman Who Refuses to Be Quiet

Author Leanora Benjamin shares nine tips on how to turn silence into story by examining her own writing and publishing journey.

Writer's Digest

Venessa G 17h ago

Awaken Your Creativity
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Awaken Your Creativity | Writers In The Storm

Stop fighting writer's block with discipline alone. Sarah Hamer shares writer-centered play and psychological tools to wake up your imagination.

Writers In The Storm | A Blog On Writing

Venessa G 1d ago

How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
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How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons

Very few of us have ever set foot near a genuine medieval castle, especially if we don't happen to live in Europe. Yet practically all of us still, here in the twenty-first century, refer with some frequency to their components in our everyday speech.

Open Culture

Rahulkumar Panwar 1d ago

The most dangerous line in any draft:
"The reader will figure it out."
Sometimes true. Usually an excuse to avoid the harder work of making it clear without making it obvious.
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Rahulkumar Panwar 2d ago

Readers don't need to understand your world.
They need to feel like they're missing something they want to know.
That's the difference between exposition and mystery. One explains. The other pulls.
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Rahulkumar Panwar 4d ago

Setting is not backdrop.
It's the argument the world is making before anyone opens their mouth.
If your setting doesn't have a position — a thing it's insisting is true — it's not doing its full job.
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Rahulkumar Panwar 4d ago

Character arcs are overrated.
Not every character needs to change. Some need to be revealed.
The story that shows you who someone always was and why it was inevitable; is harder to write and more devastating to read.
Disagree? Tell me your favourite arc in the replies.
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Kris Bock Romance/Mystery 4d ago

Kris Bock on avoiding or overcoming burnout and the qualities that are most important to develop as a writer: "Try to avoid comparing yourself to others, especially based on what you see on social media."" https://lttr.ai/Apydt
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Rahulkumar Panwar 5d ago

The hardest thing to write isn't grief or violence.
It's bureaucracy performed with complete sincerity.
A character who genuinely believes the form they're filling out matters while the world burns around them is more unsettling than any monster.
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