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by Ali | Jun 7, 2021 | Creativity
How to Come Up With Lots of Great Ideas for Your Writing [With Examples] This post was originally published in May 2011 and extensively rewritten in June 2021. Where do you get your ideas? Whether you’re a blogger, novelist, short story writer, or poet, this...
by Ali | May 24, 2021 | Creativity
The Writing Process: Five Essential Stages for Anything You’re Working On Note: This post was first published with four stages of writing in 2011, and updated in May 2021 to include the publishing stage. Images are used under the Creative Commons 2.0 license. Do...
by Ali | May 18, 2021 | Creativity
How to Write Faster: Twelve Tips to Get More Words Down Whether you’re a freelancer, a novelist, a student, or even someone writing as part of a day job, then chances are, you want to write faster. Some writers are naturally faster than others – and some genres and...
by Ali | May 11, 2021 | Editing
The Three Stages of Editing (and Nine Handy Do-it-Yourself Tips) Note: This post was originally published in 2014, and was last updated in May 2021. Whether you love editing or hate it, if you’re a writer, there’s no way to avoid it. You may well have support – from...
by Ali | May 3, 2021 | Fiction
How Long is a Novel … and How Long Should YOUR Novel Be? For some writers, the question “how long should a novel be?” sounds a bit like “how long is a piece of string?” They feel that their novel should be long enough to get the job done – even if that means it...
