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Writing Techniques Can I Get a Noun, Please? (Or, How Improv Made Me a Better Writer)

Author Michelle Maryk breaks down how improv has made her a better writer and how it can work for others as well.

Writing Habits and Practices On Writing My Faust Novel Emily Nemens

Writing Habits and Practices Writing the Way to a New You Seth Panitch

Writing Techniques How Journalism Research Is Great Training for Novel Writing Marshall Fine

Writing Habits and Practices The Tree and the Voice and Writing a Novel Chip Jacobs

Writing Techniques One Word at a Time: How to Finish Writing a Novel Traci Hunter Abramson

Short Story The Unconscious Journey From Story to Novel John C Hampsey

Writing Habits and Practices How Living Out of a Van Inspired My Writing and Life Kathryn Nolan

Writing Habits and Practices The Soundtrack of a Story: How Music Shaped My Novel Jane L. Rosen

Writing Techniques The Page or The Stage: The Differences in Writing Novels vs. Scripts Leslie Liautaud

Writing Habits and Practices Why *Exactly* the Second Novel Is So Impossible to Write Jessie Rosen

Why I Wrote Fiction Instead of Memoir—Even Though Much of It Is True Andres Schabelman

Writing Techniques How Journalism Helps Me Write Fiction (and Vice Versa)Bryan Gruley

Writing Techniques 2 Things Writers Should Know About the Future of the Novel Simon Okotie

Writing Techniques Making Use of Storystarter Scenes in Fiction Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Writing Techniques On Writing and Research—for Books and Screenplays John Sayles

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