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Author: Deborah A. Lott, MFA

Deborah A. Lott is the author of In Session: the Bond Between Women and Their Therapists and the memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me. As a developmental editor, she’s worked with many writers, academic institutions, nonprofits, and corporate clients. View Deborah's profile.
How to Show and Tell in Your Writing
Writing & Editing Process

How to Show and Tell in Your Writing

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA January 24, 2023

When writers show and tell, they do more than just flatly report on what’s happened in the narrative line of the story.

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5 Tips for Writing a Memoir About Trauma
Writing & Editing Process

5 Tips for Writing a Memoir About Trauma

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA August 5, 2020March 23, 2022

Trauma creates chaos, while writing brings new order, imposing a beginning, middle, and an end. Here are some key suggestions for how to approach writing a memoir about trauma.

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The Trauma Memoir: Forging Art From Adversity
Writing & Editing Process

The Trauma Memoir: Forging Art From Adversity

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA July 30, 2020February 15, 2022

How writing about trauma can benefit us — both emotionally and physically.

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How a Developmental Editor Can Save Your Book
Writing & Editing Process

How a Developmental Editor Can Save Your Book

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA June 4, 2018February 15, 2022

Answers to writers’ frequently asked questions about developmental editing.

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Reading Your Work Aloud—a Crucial Step in Your Writing Process
Writing & Editing Process

Reading Your Work Aloud—a Crucial Step in Your Writing Process

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA September 20, 2016February 15, 2022

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.

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Writing & Editing Process

Is a Writers Workshop for You?

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA February 1, 2015

Writers come to workshops for a variety of reasons – support, alliance with other writers, to grouse about the business of publishing, and for critique. Is a workshop right for you?

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Selling Your Writing

Writing by the Numbers?

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA October 18, 2013

I confess: Every morning, often before I even drink that first longed-for cup of coffee, I feel besieged by numbers. As a writer with a manuscript out with editors, and an editor trying to help other writers publish and market their books, the sheer number of numbers that have become critical to my professional life…

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Selling Your Writing

Writing Creative Nonfiction That Editors Can’t Refuse

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA August 30, 2012

Though there are always matters of taste and every literary journal is different, I suspect that many editors respond to creative nonfiction queries as I do.

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Publishing Industry

Kindle: Friend or Foe – A Book in the Hand Is Worth…

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA April 29, 2012

I was lying in bed one night next to my husband, both of us reading, when I first noticed it. “Stut,” “stut,” “stut.” Maybe I’d been hearing it for a while but it hadn’t really registered. What new sound had he learned to make with what body part? I wondered. After nearly 20 years lying…

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Writing & Editing Process

Ideas About Writing That Can Lead to Not Writing

ByDeborah A. Lott, MFA April 29, 2012

I have to wait for inspiration to write. Only writing that comes out of a rush of inspiration is true or good. Inspiration is great but you can’t wait for it. Your best chance of being there when it happens is to set up a regular, daily writing practice. I can’t write until I figure…

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