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The post Top Posts from 2022: The WITS Dynamic Dozen first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/01/top-posts-from-2022-the-wits-dynamic-dozen/feed/ 3 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/11/the-winning-attitude-of-a-successful-writer/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/11/the-winning-attitude-of-a-successful-writer/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:59:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46567 Writing successfully means you get words on the page. Diana Gabaldon believes the key is understanding how your own brain works, and working WITH it.

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The post Deserted Island Books - Part 2 first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2010/07/confessions-of-an-a-d-d-writer/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:54:49 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=207 It took me years to discover that I am an A.D.D. writer. For more than a decade I’ve gone from manuscript to manuscript, even jumping from one to another then back again. I wasn’t having a writing problem, I was having a finishing problem.

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