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How I Stopped Sabotaging My Writing Goals: Confessions of a Late Bloomer
Despite long-standing aspirations of writing a book, initial successes with short stories and essays, and a healthy career in publishing, Andrea Jarrell published her first book at age 55. Here, she shares her experiences and offers principles for achieving your writing goals.
How Not to Kill Each Other: A Writer’s Guide to Collaboration
When collaborating with other authors on a project, how do you get everyone on the same page? It's challenging, but doable if you use these tricks.
Why Facebook Is My Dream Publicist
Like a dream book publicist, Facebook has helped me in many ways. Here's how it can help you as a writer.
How To Write When You’re A Parent
If you're a parent (or a writer with outside responsibilities), you'll need to find a way to write in an always-changing, consistently disruptive environment. Here's how to do that and reach your writing goals.
9 Ways to Stop Your Novel from Stalling
Take an honest look at the real reasons our stories can stall—and discover 9 simple strategies to help you make it to “The End.”
The Art of Writing is in the Rewriting
Writing is about getting down to it, about finding your way into the moment and sustaining the energy for as long as you can effectively. But the REAL writing is during revision.
5 Tips on Making You a Tough (& Better) Writer
Becoming a masochist early on – embracing the pain to the point of enjoyment - may be the single best investment an aspiring writer can make. The pain takes many shapes, all of them useful along the writer’s path.
7 Reasons Writing a Book Makes You a Badass
Author Brian A. Klems explains why writing his book, OH BOY, YOU'RE HAVING A GIRL: A Dad's Survival Guide to Raising Daughters, made him feel like a complete and utter badass.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Gene Weingarten Shares his Thoughts on Writing
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten shares his thoughts on writing, reporting and how, exactly, to capture the meaning of life
How to Avoid 10 Common Conference Mistakes That Most Writers Make
10 top conference organizers reveal the 10 common pitfalls they most often see writers tumbling into—and how to avoid them.
50 Simple Ways to Build Your Platform in 5 Minutes a Day
If you’re the kind of writer who prefers being read and selling your work as opposed to being an unknown starving writer (who doesn’t?), here are 50 quick, simple ways to launch your platform into action and climb your way to success.
Before They Were Famous: The Oddest Odd Jobs of 10 Literary Greats
Plenty of acclaimed and successful writers began their careers working strange—and occasionally degrading—day jobs. But rather than being ground down by the work, many drew inspiration for stories and poems from even the dullest gigs. Here are 10 of the oddest odd jobs of famous authors—all of them reminders that creative fodder can be found in the most unexpected places.
A Legal Checklist for Writers
If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, you should take special care that you’re not risking an invasion of privacy or defamation charge. by Amy Cook