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- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: freewriting, writer's block
Learn how this technique can help you overcome writing block and improve your writing.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: self-publishing
Learn about the crucial role an interior designer plays in the self-publishing process.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: creative process, writer's block, writers workshops
Shifting the way you think about your book goals can help you get to the end more easily.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: developmental editing, types of editors
Answers to writers' frequently asked questions about developmental editing.
- Categories: For the Love of Writing
- Tags: constructive criticism, creative process, personal statements, writing resources
LAEWG members reflect on the source of some of the influences and insight that made a lasting impression on their professional lives.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: revising your writing, self-editing
As contemporary writers, we can still benefit tremendously by listening to the words we've written. In fact, reading our work aloud is an essential step in the writing process.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: fact checking, writing research, writing resources
Is the internet today's primary research tool? Can it, as it did for Weir, substitute for direct experience? The answer is—yes and no.
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: genre writing, memoir writing
In every memoir and personal essay class I teach, one anxiety-arousing subject always comes up: How can I be sure this is true? Students ask the question. The question calls for conversation, and I usually begin that conversation with a larger question: Why are you writing a memoir?
- Categories: Writing & Editing Process
- Tags: character development, creative writing
Everyone loves a good story. We all know one when we read one. But what makes a good story?