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10 Fast Tips for Creative Writing

10 Fast Tips for Creative Writing

These ten fast tips for creative writing are effective and easy. The more creative you are, the more inspired you’ll feel, the more ideas you’ll generate, and the more productive you’ll be! It’s an upward spiral that may require a little extra effort at first – but creativity is a habit for successful writers. Before [...]

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5 Ways to Find Writing Inspiration From Margaret Laurence

5 Ways to Find Writing Inspiration From Margaret Laurence

These five ways to find writing inspiration are inspired by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. These tips will help you create new ideas for both magazine articles and book ideas, and increase your writing productivity. Before the tips, a quip: “I’ve never been able to force a novel,” wrote Laurence in Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. “I always [...]

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Overcome Writing Rejections and Failures – Tips From J.K. Rowling

Overcome Writing Rejections and Failures – Tips From J.K. Rowling

All writers — no matter how successful — need to learn how to overcome writing failures and rejections. These tips for writers are based on J.K. Rowling’s Commencement Speech at Harvard, which was about failing in life, and succeeding as a writer. Rowling called this part of her speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure.” “An exceptionally short-lived [...]

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10 Solutions to the Most Common Writing Mistakes

10 Solutions to the Most Common Writing Mistakes

These ten solutions to the most common writing mistakes apply to all types of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, technical, etc. Writing tips like this can make you a better writer and self-editor…which increases your chances of getting published! But first, a writing quip: “Don’t write down to your readers,” writes Jack Bickham. “The ones dumber than [...]

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