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Revision and How to Avoid it While Writing the First Draft

Revision is a holistic view of your work, not the fine details of editing. Here's some suggestions to keep writing when temptation to revise is too great.

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Creating Tension with Lizard-brain Writing

 Tiffany Yates Martin Writers love their brains: We exploit our highly evolved prefrontal cortex to infuse our prose with dazzling verbiage and transport our reader to the world of our creation. Yet for creating tension—one of the most important elements of compelling fiction—nothing beats the lowly amygdala: the primordial lizard brain that handles the most […]

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