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What If You Can’t Afford “A Room of One’s Own”?

In an essay on Electric Lit, Sandra Newman writes about the financial insecurity writers feel when they try to–or must–make a living from their... https://t.co/HxXpk5VFJU

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Autopsies For Authors With Geoff Symon

In an interview with the Creative Penn blog, federal forensic investigator Geoff Simon talks about autopsies. Simon has worked on cases related to 9/11 and the... https://t.co/pco9i6KpCV

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When To Tell

Writers are admonished to “show, don’t tell” but are there times when telling is the right method to convey information to your readers? The cast of the Writing Excuses podcast say yes.

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Why the Word “Conflict” is So Frustrating

In a guest post on the Writers in the Storm blog, Janice Hardy talks about the difficulty writers sometimes face creating enough conflict in their stories.... https://t.co/xWiYKIjaJh

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How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?

A comic by Sophie Lucido Johnson on the Longreads blog finds the author hunting used bookstores for personal journals mixed in the stacks. Her... https://t.co/7YwgK6p7XQ

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In a long post on CrimeReads, Scarlett Harris examines how our culture’s fascination with evil often translates into the romanticization of evil men. As a notable recent example, Harris discusses the recent... https://t.co/lf75i4GMuF

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Steven Pressfield offers suggestions for how and why to write more cinematically. “There’s a reason why Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize and it wasn’t just because he used short words,” Pressfield writes. https://t.co/UnMTub87SN

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In a post on DIY MFA, Kassandra Flamouri offers five tips for creating strong female characters, or as we call them here at Big Pulp: people. https://t.co/afWMfckbrn

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In a blog post on Writer’s Digest, literary agent Hope Bolinger offers some tips for moving past writers block, including self-care for your over-tired brain, some writing change-ups that might get you... https://t.co/z3ykRR81lq

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Hanna Nina Jameson shares the story of obscure 18th century French feminist Olympe de Gouges. In addition to denouncing the cruelty of the Jacobins, de Gouges was a suffragette and abolitionist, and advocated for... https://t.co/vPBMRzt64p

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Save Your Darlings!

It seems like only yesterday I was ranting against experts who advise writers to “Kill Your Darlings” but actually it was about 2 weeks ago we shared Ken Miyamoto’s blog post on misunderstood writing... https://t.co/OeA1Mn4VQU

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Writing Outside the Box

In an article on Writers Digest, Diana Pho discusses how writers can create characters whose experiences are outside their own. Pho notes that expectations for writing the Other are ever-evolving, but... https://t.co/pNXMX7q6iy

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5 Ways to Create Distinct Characters

In a guest post on Janice Hardy’s Fiction University, Sarah McGuire offers tricks and tips for creating memorable characters. In her book Flight of Swans, McGuire... https://t.co/R9tNN6pWMV

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How to Show Worlds Less Ordinary

In a post on Writers Unboxed, literary agent Donald Maass offers suggestions for how writers can introduce readers to un-ordinary worlds, both real and imagined. In some... https://t.co/RepyrzhM5A

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The Importance of Having Mixed-Raced Characters in the Mix

In an essay on CrimeReads, Vivien Chien shares her experience creating a character of Asian descent for her Noodle Shop... https://t.co/pcQEqiuqoj

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Obstacles vs. Complications

In the latest episode of the Writing Excuses podcast, the hosts discuss the difference between obstacles and complications in your story. Both obstacles and complications both impede... https://t.co/TH6pjLz02x

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Recycling Characters

During the latest Mythcreants podcasts, the hosts discuss ways writers re-use their favorite characters in different forms, with both good and bad results. Do your characters tend to have the same... https://t.co/YrmVIrded3

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Writing Prompt: Inside Dearfield

NBC News–of all places–has the story of Dearfield, Colorado, a ghost town that once was a booming all-black settlement. Founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson, the town... https://t.co/0X9sKjpAqz

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Showing Your Age(s)

A new post at Janice Hardy’s Fiction University offers tips for revealing your characters’ ages without being corny. It’s okay to say a character’s age outright and it’s okay to suggest it by... https://t.co/EqPqgPDiaj