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Writing Habits and Practices Writing to Solve Personal Conundrums: Memoir or Novel?

Author Lorelei Brush explains how after a career of answering questions for others she’s been confronted by one as a writer: Memoir or novel?

Writing Habits and Practices Finding My Characters in the Wild: What Hiking Taught Me About Writing H.D. Carver

Character The Bold Choice That Nearly Killed My Novel—and Saved It Catherine Marshall-Smith

Writing Techniques Long-Time Writer, First-Time Novelist Arvind Ethan David

Writing Techniques Writing a Web of Lies Afsheen Farhadi

Writing Habits and Practices The 15-Minute Manuscript: High-Output Writing for the Time-Crunched Writer Susan Wiggs

Writing Techniques On Writing Appalachian Folklore Leah Weiss

Writing Habits and Practices Writing My Novel on My Phone (and Through Grief)Ros Hill

Writing Habits and Practices Writing Memoir to Fiction Alex Messenger

Writing Habits and Practices I Wrote a Novel About Women Who Refuse Marriage; It Changed My Life Lindsay MacMillan

Writing Habits and Practices Everything Except the Novel: How I Made My Book the Long Way Don Schechter

Writing Habits and Practices What Happens When a Mother Wants to Break Free?Caitlin Shetterly

Writing Techniques 6 Screenwriting Tips to Improve Your Novel Gregory Poirier

Writing Techniques 4 Things I Do Before I Write the First Word of a Novel Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Writing Techniques Writing Books in the Age of AI Laura Brooke Robson

Writing Techniques Writing a Debut Novel—Expectation Vs. Reality Georgia McVeigh

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