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How to Become a Better Writer

How to become a better writer? Establish a consistent routine that prioritizes showing up. Practice, rest, and refill your creative...
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Filtering

Filtering will disengage any good reader. Experiment with your sentences and you can cut down on this bad habit to...
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Beta Readers: Finding Trusted Insight for Your Work

Beta readers help writers feel safe to fall deeper into their work. Balance the proximity that your beta readers might...
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Screenplay Structure

Screenplay structure allows a writer to investigate their characters and theme and get to the heart of where they exist...

How to Sell Your Screenplay

Selling your screenplay is a battle of outreach, portfolio, and simplicity. Learn how to balance your professional expectations with the...
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Satire: Turning Humor into Insight

Understand satire, a technique that allows you to smuggle truth into critiques of power by critical construction of context and...
Conflating Characters
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Alan Watt

Conflating Characters

Sometimes we’ve written characters that don’t belong in our story because their function is redundant. Conflict might arise that don’t add anything

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Own Your Work
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Alan Watt

Own Your Work

Just because you might be a first-time novelist, it doesn’t mean you’re not the authority over your work. No agent, publisher, or

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The Rewrite
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Alan Watt

Approaching the Rewrite

 The first draft is about diving into the unknown, invoking the muse, and writing from our right brains. The next step, the

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Getting Notes

Getting Notes – Ten Things to Consider

I got an email this morning from one of my students who just received a pile of notes on her...

Banishing Redundancies

Banishing Redundancies

Redundancy is not only a sign of lazy writing; it can also pull us out of the story by interrupting...

Conflating Characters

Conflating Characters

Sometimes we’ve written characters that don’t belong in our story because their function is redundant. Conflict might arise that don’t...

Own Your Work

Own Your Work

Just because you might be a first-time novelist, it doesn’t mean you’re not the authority over your work. No agent,...

The Rewrite

Approaching the Rewrite

 The first draft is about diving into the unknown, invoking the muse, and writing from our right brains. The next...