What do water filters and air filters have to do with the way your organize your writing?No, that’s not some really strange puzzle or trick question, exactly, but a lesson about writing that I’ve picked up from many weekly trips to...
Topics: Advice for New Writers, Writing Tips

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I’ve been doing this blog for several years now. Sometimes, I confess, I don’t get around as often as I’d like, and I haven’t that much to say related directly to writing and writing tips.Then sometimes, when I come here, I see...
Topics: Blogging

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If you hope to capture an audience and/or get your fiction published, you must work hard to stay on top of changing technology.I’m not talking about something as simple as learning the latest computer software, or upgrading to a new computer, or...
Topics: Advice for New Writers, Writing Tips

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I’m sure you’ve heard that famous quote attributed to Sigmund Freud, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” I don’t know the context of the quote, in fact I’ve seen suggestions that it isn’t even a legitimate Freud.
Topics: Advice for New Writers, Writing Tips

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Are some words we have in our toolbox as writers really “unusable”? Why are some words considered to be taboo or maybe reserved for “mature” audiences?There really are no fixed answers to those and similar questions about word...
Topics: Writing and Life

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