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7 Reasons to Consider a Writing Conference

December 29, 2015
Student Contributor
Guest posts, Industry, The Writing Life, Workshops
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Adrienne Niceley, Guest Contributor: There comes a point in your journey as a writer when it's time to move forward. Getting out into the realm of other conferences gives you new perspectives that will benefit you hugely in your career.

Writing Characters When You Don’t Hear Voices in Your Head

December 16, 2015
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Guest posts, Help with Characters, Writing Tips and Tools
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Miguel Flores, Guest Contributor People have told me their characters “talk” to them. These fictional characters use our brains as home base but are otherwise free to explore both their world and ours. When these vagabond ghost squatters re-enter our brains, they kick up their feet, scatter our neatly organized plot bunnies, and babble about their lives or rudely commentate on ours.

You Weren’t Born in a Vacuum! – Real Characters from Real Worlds

December 9, 2015
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Guest posts, Help with Characters, Push Your Imagination, World building, Writing Tips and Tools
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Janae Leeke, Guest Contributor: World building is just backwards sociology, piecing together a culture instead of picking it apart. It asks the same questions. What is important to your people? What do they treasure? What do they believe is right and wrong?

Avoiding the Comparison Trap

December 3, 2015
Student Contributor
Guest posts, Stuck? Discouraged?, The Writing Life
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Caitlyn Meissner, Guest Contributor: I’m a writer, and a comparison addict. Maybe you’re one, too.

How to Climb the Face of Your Writing Future

November 25, 2015
Staff Writer
Parenting a Young Writer, Stuck? Discouraged?, The Writing Life
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By Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer: If you are shaken by the loss of your earlier confidence and joy in writing, please don’t make the mistake of concluding you just don’t have it in you after all.