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Creativity Under Pressure: How to Write Your Way Through Storms

July 30, 2012

You've been trudging along, writing at an erratic pace, when an email arrives. Noting the sender, you close your Twitter, Pinterest and …

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Urgency to Write: How to Keep The Fire Burning

June 21, 2012

ur-gent adj. 1. Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing. 2. Insistent or importunate: the urgent words "Hurry! …

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Deadlines: Lifelines for Writers

February 21, 2012

If you sit around waiting for inspiration, it may never come. I met an author—let's call him "Larry"—at a conference last year whose …

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Writing Tricks and Blog Treats

October 29, 2011

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could go door-to-door on Halloween and get loaded up with insight from writers??? In some ways, that’s the …

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