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Category: Inspiration

To Nano or Not To Nano...

  NaNoWriMo, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, is National Novel Writing Month, where hundreds of thousands of writers gather to bang out as many words as they can in the month of November. Many writers skip it and many writers treat it as a yearly pilgrimage to Writing Mecca. NaNoWriMo is my […]

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Why Learning Writing Takes So Long

I'm taking a break from first page critiques this month, because something is bugging me and I have to get it out. Continue to send your pages, though, I'll be back next month with a crit!   I traveled to speak at a writer's group last weekend (I do that, you know. Contact me if […]

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You Are Your Golden Ticket

Tiffany Yates Martin   I had a blog post all queued up for this week, but I’m on a plane back from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ annual Colorado Gold conference and can’t stop thinking about the weekend and what it made me realize about this business—and the authors who are the soul of it. […]

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WITS Top 20: Tools for Writers at Every Level

  I was looking up some stuff on the back end of Writers In the Storm the other day and it kind of blew my mind. As I scoped out traffic and posts and fixed old links, the walk down Memory Lane made me nostalgic. Here's what I learned about WITS. We've been around since […]

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Have You Lost Touch With Your Avid Inner Reader?

  From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books — for story, for craft, for new worlds and new ideas. I don’t know if we become students of the written word because we love to read or if we read because we were born to love the written word. All that […]

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