Venessa G

@VenessaG
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Author. Educator. Editrix. Nerd.

The sort of evil that inspires hugs.

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How to Structure Your Novel • Career Authors

Awardwinning author and writing teacher Carol Goodman offers sharp, practical advice on structuring your novel.

Career Authors

The Author Who Cannot Write (About Themselves)
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The Author Who Cannot Write (About Themselves)

Let's face it, writing about ourselves is hard. Veteran author shares the five steps that every author can use to write a great author bio for our back covers.

Writers In The Storm | A Blog On Writing

Writing the Afterlife of Trauma: Crafting Characters Beyond Their Wounds
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Writing the Afterlife of Trauma: Crafting Characters Beyond Their Wounds

Author Kalyani Adusumilli examines writing the afterlife of trauma by crafting characters beyond their initial traumatic experiences.

Writer's Digest

When Deep POV Revisions Feel Flat (And What To Fix Instead)
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When Deep POV Revisions Feel Flat (And What To Fix Instead)

Here are five revision traps to avoid, especially when you're writing in Deep POV. (A Big One: when you’re revising sentences instead of emotional moments.)

Writers In The Storm | A Blog On Writing
How to research a literary agent

Follow these tips to research a literary agent to find the right agent and write a personalized query letter that will catch a literary agent's eye.

Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
A Draft With a Will of Its Own

You’re working through a draft and things happen that you didn’t plan—and you had a plan, or at least you thought you did. A character is acting out of character. You’re questioning whether t…

Writer Unboxed

A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions
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A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions

Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth century BC, what we now know as the Acropolis has been used to worship not just Greek gods, but also, in later periods, the Virgin Mary and Allah.

Open Culture
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The Most Influential Philosophers Explained in 26 Minutes: From Socrates to Wittgenstein
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The Most Influential Philosophers Explained in 26 Minutes: From Socrates to Wittgenstein

The question of who are the fifteen most influential philosophers of all time may not arise at every conversation down at the pub — not outside the circle of Open Culture readers, in any case. But even among non-specialists, it could spark a livelier debate than you might imagine.

Open Culture
The Gothic Is a Gateway to Literature's Most Enduring Themes - Electric Literature

The best books in the genre are haunted by the unbearable truth at the heart of empires

Electric Literature