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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, March 21-27, 2021

It’s almost the end of March (!) and time to get your informal writerly learnings on Erika Liodice shares some lessons found in a lost year. Heather Webb: your writing process says you’re a failure....

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, March 28-April 3, 2021

Welcome to another tipsday, your chance to stock up on informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy shares four ways to create emotional peril in your characters. Another piece of advice I desperately...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, April 4-10, 2021

It’s Tuesday again! Time you get your fill of informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy lists six problems your query letter reveals about your novel. Then, Laurence MacNaughton lists three powerful...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, April 11-17, 2021

Ah, Tuesday! The day when you get to catch up on your informal writerly learnings of the previous week. Janice Hardy explains how the wrap up works in a novel. #storystructure Fiction University K.M....

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, April 18-24, 2021

Your weekly batch of informal writerly learnings has arrived. Get them while they’re hot! Jan O’Hara shares a display hack for your story’s outline. Dave King: the non-writing part of writing. Then,...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, April 25-May 1, 2021

Welcome to the first tipsday of May Get your informal writerly learnings while they last (just kidding, the archives are always accessible)! Kim Bullock: what your protagonist’s Spotify playlist might...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, May 16-22, 2021

You’ve just survived a Tuesday-that-feels-like-a-Monday after a long weekend. Reward yourself with some informal writerly learnings. Vaughn Roycroft shows you how story tropes can be our friends. Dave...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, June 13-19, 2021

Welcome back to tipsday, your chance to peruse all the informal writerly learnings K.M. Weiland covers the flat archetype of the ruler in part 19 of her archetypal character arcs series. Helping...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, June 27-July 3, 2021

Welcome to another week of informal writerly learnings Enjoy! Erika Liodice explains how to create an authentic setting from a place you’ve never been. Matthew Norman advises, when in doubt, look...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, July 4-10, 2021

Another week, another batch of informal writerly learnings. Enjoy! Lauren J. Sharkey shares some advice about investments and returns. Then, Adam Burgess wonders if there’s a genre best suited to...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, July 25-31, 2021

You made it through Monday (and a Tuesday-that-feels-like-a-Monday for my Canadian readers)! Time to reward yourself with some informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy helps you write better...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Aug 1-7, 2021

It is time, once again, to stock up on informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy says, don’t let these plotting errors knock your novel off track. Then, Jodi Turchin touts the benefits of a DIY...

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Thoughty Thursday: Things that made me go hmmmm on the interwebz, Aug 1-7, 2021

And now, it’s time to get your mental corn popping. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: did last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests change anything? The New Yorker Matt Stroud relates how an automated policing...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Aug 8-14, 2021

Another week, another batch of informal writerly learnings. Ann Marie Nieves answers your book PR and marketing questions (part 4). Then, Jim Dempsey wants you to enhance your fantasies with a dose of...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Aug 15-21, 2021

You’ve made it through Monday! Reward yourself with some informal writerly learnings Vaughn Roycroft is living with unpublished characters. Then, Barbara O’Neal is finding the particular. Barbara Linn...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, July 4-10, 2021

Another week, another batch of informal writerly learnings. Enjoy! Lauren J. Sharkey shares some advice about investments and returns. Then, Adam Burgess wonders if there’s a genre best suited to...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, July 25-31, 2021

You made it through Monday (and a Tuesday-that-feels-like-a-Monday for my Canadian readers)! Time to reward yourself with some informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy helps you write better...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Aug 1-7, 2021

It is time, once again, to stock up on informal writerly learnings. Janice Hardy says, don’t let these plotting errors knock your novel off track. Then, Jodi Turchin touts the benefits of a DIY...

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Thoughty Thursday: Things that made me go hmmmm on the interwebz, Aug 1-7, 2021

And now, it’s time to get your mental corn popping. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: did last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests change anything? The New Yorker Matt Stroud relates how an automated policing...

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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Aug 8-14, 2021

Another week, another batch of informal writerly learnings. Ann Marie Nieves answers your book PR and marketing questions (part 4). Then, Jim Dempsey wants you to enhance your fantasies with a dose of...

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