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4 Easy Tools To Help You Pick Your Characters’ Names
They’ll thank you later What’s in a name? A life. A legacy. Everything in between. Naming our characters is a huge part of the writing process. No run-of-the-mill Imani, Mary, Haruto, James, Fiadh, Ahmed, Aba, or Kevin will do. Except when they’re the perfect name. But, if you’re looking to create a name, here’s a…
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Unscientific Proof Your Weird Story Is Exactly What You Need To Write
Don’t let anyone tell you differently You’ve got a weird story inside of you, begging you to get out, don’t you? The oddest, goriest, BDSM-y, never-tell-anyone, go-to-my-grave defective platypus rattling around in that head of yours. We all do. But, it’s too weird, isn’t it? Maybe we should hurl that mass of exploded robin-slug guts…
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Don’t Read This Article; It Sucks
This is a story about me not wanting to write today — and why I’m doing it anyway Today’s not that day. Satan knows it. My mind’s scattered in at least nine directions, and the words aren’t coming in anything other than fuzzy images. Then, they’re dripping down in letters that won’t link up right; I’m having a…
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A Letter to Anyone Afraid To Call Themselves a Writer
And even more afraid to write Dear scared writer, Yes, I called you a writer. Even if you’ve never written a word, you are a writer in my book. You see, the spirit of being a writer isn’t measurable. It doesn’t count words, sentences, or paragraphs. You can’t buy it. You can’t touch it. It comes…
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I Want To Be a Bestselling Author
Bestseller. It has a certain smell to it, a silky feeling, a paradise twinkle, doesn’t it? It’s the epitome of what words can do. Create futures, inspire effort, build empires. Bestseller. Sometimes, as authors, we are afraid to say we want to write a bestseller. And we’re even more afraid we’ll never make it onto…
