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When Do You Know It’s Time to Cut Your Losses?

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The sunk cost fallacy is a theory of human nature that says people will continue to invest in something - financially or emotionally -...

One Writer’s Simple Trick for Brainstorming the Future

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Science fiction writers have been predicting elements of the future - and our present - for decades. While we don't yet have holodeck and...

Wait – There are SIX Types of Edits?!

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Writers who don't like to edit their work - or who don't even bother trying - may be shocked to learn there are not...

Get SMART With Your Writing Goals

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For many of us, creative writing is an escape from the drudgery of the corporate world. We bask in whatever time we can spend...

Your Character Should Spend Very, Very Little Time Alone

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The Writers Write blog shares 35 quotes about creating characters, taken from some of the top writers in the business. A few of our...

Going Beyond Factual Research to Get to the Heart of Your Characters

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Cursory research on historical or otherwise unique settings can give you enough facts to establish a time or place, but sometimes you need more...

Unmet Needs Fuel Your Internal Conflicts

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Becca Puglisi of the Writers Helping Writers blog continues her blog tour with a stop at C.S. Lakin's site, bringing another view of conflict....

Stronger Structure Can Save Your Muddy Middle

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In a guest post on Writers Helping Writers, Jami Gold says that paying closer attention to traditional story structure can help you bolster a...

Write Forward, Edit Backwards

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When we write, most of us start at the beginning and chug through to the end, and we edit the same way. But sometimes,...

Please Don’t Call Me Beautiful

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There's a fine line between "not enough" and "too much" that writers must tread in their fiction. Too many characters or too few? Too...

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