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Ask the Story Genius: What Does 'Likeable' Really Mean?

Lisa Cron We are so proud and humbled that the Lisa Cron, the author of Wired for Story, and Story Genius has agreed to blog with us on a regular basis! In case you haven't yet seen her TED Talk, you can watch it here. Later. After you read her first installment of 'Ask the Story […]

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Where the stories come from

Kimberly Brock Lightning Collectors There are these questions I get a lot as a writer. “What do you write?”  “Do you actually make any money at this?” “How do you have the time?” Blah. I don’t mind answering any of these questions, but honestly, they bore me. They’re so obvious. So unoriginal. These questions are […]

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Creating an Author Brand When You Write Multiple Genres

June Stevens Westerfield Creating a brand that represents you as an author and reflects your writing as a whole is hard enough when you write in just one genre.  Often, when an author writes books in just one series, their author brand gets tied inextricably with their series brand.  That isn’t ideal, but it isn’t […]

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The First Draft Jungle

Christina Delay In case you didn’t know, there’s a little thing called NaNoWriMo going on this month. It’s basically a month in which writers lose sleep, stop talking to their families, give up binge watching Netflix, and forget how to spell without Word’s autocorrect feature, all to meet a challenging word count of 50,000 words […]

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Conquering about-to-be-published fears

My debut comes out in May. It’s exciting. And terrifying. A box of galleys arrived a week ago. Even before I had the box completely open, I was crying. The top two books are slightly tear- stained now – those will stay on my shelf. 🙂  I mentioned exciting, right? Seeing all of your hard work […]

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