https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:00:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/11/question-of-the-day-why-do-you-write/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/11/question-of-the-day-why-do-you-write/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:58:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=48917 An important question that every writer should know the answer to: WHY do you write? And why knowing the "why" helps you keep your momentum and passion.

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The post The Road To Writing: Why Do YOU Do It? first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/07/the-road-to-writing/feed/ 12 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/05/why-do-we-write-probst/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/05/why-do-we-write-probst/#comments Fri, 15 May 2020 11:01:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=39908 Barbara Linn Probst asks "Why do you write? Why are you writing this particular book?"

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The post What IS a Writer's Job? first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/10/what-is-a-writers-job/feed/ 23 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/07/five-plus-tips-to-keep-you-writing/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/07/five-plus-tips-to-keep-you-writing/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:00:25 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=13351 James Preston So, What's In It For You? Or, How To Not Quit I  know what you are thinking, if you have read some of my earlier contributions to this award-winning blog. "Oh, no, he's going to make me get out a calculator and see if the midpoint of my novel is really a watershed, […]

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