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Category: Writing Craft

Ax Your Cliches: Why and How

We couldn't talk WriterStrong without our Yoda of Edits and sparkling prose, Margie Lawson. Be prepared for great takeaway as Margie not only tells you, but shows you how it's done!  Here she is: A big THANK YOU to Laura Drake for inviting me to be her guest today. Everything I teach is all about […]

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What Are You Excited About? Marketing & Promo Made Easy...

by Jenny Hansen As the September blog mistress here at WITS, I'm taking a page out of my personal blog's playbook and marking the beginning of Autumn with a celebration of you. I'm doing this a few different ways... First up, we're doing what I call "Pimp & Promote." We try to do this once every […]

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WriterStrong: A New Writing Series About YOU

Writers In The Storm is starting a new series this month that we think y’all will love. In addition to our regular contributing bloggers like Kara Lennox, Shannon Donnelly and Susan Spann, we’ll be opening the door to a whole new you with this series of posts. Many of you have expressed interest in our […]

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Dust Bunny Books: Should You Revive Them or Let Them Die?

by Laura Drake It’s been about two months since I wrote my post about writing two books at the same time (you can read it here.)  The only thing I’d change about my original advice is, do not work on two books at the same time that are at the same level of completion. I’m […]

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Words for Your Writing Toolbox: Get Rid of "Get"

Sharla's been getting receiving tons of love at Writers In The Storm this week. As part of our "thank you," we're bumping this amazing post of hers up by several days. ~ Jenny by Sharla Rae The idea for this blog was generated at one our recent critique meetings. We were critiquing a first draft and […]

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