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How Writing Poetry Helped My Brain and Body Heal – guest blog by June G. Paul — Trish Hopkinson

“I can’t walk and talk at the same time.” We hadn’t seen each other in quite some time and my friend was frustrated with me. I kept having to stop every time I wanted to say something and my body was veering off course. It didn’t seem like it was only my body veering off […]

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Writing poetry or not — Jane Dougherty Writes

I am working on real poetry, studying others and picking out the bones from the salmon of knowledge, searching for the path to success, trying to write a poem with so much depth only a deep sea diver with oxygen tanks will ever touch it, to write a poem with so many lexical […]

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How to Deepen Your Worldbuilding — A Writer’s Path

by Cecilia Lewis Setting and worldbuilding are critical aspects of your novel. Having a vivid setting can pull readers into your story and bring it to life, and unique worldbuilding is often what sets a book apart. In editing both my clients’ books and my own, I find that establishing the setting is […]

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Writers Can Help Themselves Get Lucky — A Writer’s Path

by Allison Maruska Don’t worry, this post is still approved for general audiences. Though if you’re looking for the more adult definition, this is the interwebs. Just don’t be gone too long, because that might not help your career advancement. Anyway.

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I Deal with Imposter Syndrome Daily and I Haven’t Quit Writing Yet — A Writer’s Path

by Meg Dowell Writing is hard enough. Add imposter syndrome into the mix and it becomes the kind of challenge you have to remind yourself, quite often, is still worth pursuing.

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5 Things Nobody Tells You About a Writing Career — A Writer’s Path

by Lev Raphael When I published my first short story in Redbook after winning a prize, I thought my career was set. I was my MFA program’s star (that year, anyway); I’d made a lot of money for a graduate student through the prize and the magazine; I was getting fan mail and […]

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