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A New Kind of Beta Reader
As authors, one of the things we get more than anything else is criticism. We send our baby books to betas and CPs (which literally...
Dec 5, 20183 min read
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Common Comma Problems
We all have those things we hate doing: snaking the bath tub drain, adulting, dealing with commas. I deal with them so much while...
Mar 26, 20185 min read
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Breaking Down Semicolons & Em Dashes
I have a weird love for bad 80s movies, Nicholas Cage, and The Semicolon. It’s true: I actually have the Queen of Punctuation tattooed...
Mar 19, 20185 min read
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Dialogue Tags, Actions Beats & Voice Descriptors: Oh my!
Some things are just tricky. Taxes. French cooking. Training my dog not to lick me in the face no matter how many times I tell her not...
Mar 12, 20186 min read
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Dialogue Tags: Yeah, Those Jerks
Oh, Dialogue Tags, Dialogue Tags, how we love to punctuate thee! - Said NO ONE, EVER Really, though, I know these things can be...
Mar 5, 20184 min read
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Escaping the Friend Zone, and Killing Other Darlings
Everyone’s heard the phrase “Kill Your Darlings” at some point in your writing career, yes? Those scenes we love so much because we’ve...
May 24, 20175 min read
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When Your H is a B: How To Write an Anti-Heroine
I don’t know about you guys, but I love reading and writing about strong women. And to me, the strongest of them all is the small gray...
Mar 5, 20178 min read
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Writers on the Rise: Introducing Adele Buck
Universal truth: writers are AWESOME, whether they have agents, book deals, contest wins coming out their ears, or are in the query...
Mar 3, 20178 min read
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