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I’m now on the fourth draft of a story I’ve been working on for the last few years. Once the characters, plot and theme stabilized, I did a round of…
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This quote by Nayyirah Waheed haunts me nearly every day: “The thing you are most afraid to write Write that.” Sometimes it’s the usual fears. What if…
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All my life, I’ve thought of Jane Austen novels as the kind where women constrained by a society that won’t permit them any real adventures express…
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Honestly, if you’re an author, you’re probably always going to be something of a creep. You can’t help noticing things about other people that set them…
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Or, lessons in divine writerly patience from Tiān Guān Cì Fú
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Or, how to keep the spark alive in the years it takes to write a novel
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Or, that other extreme of writer's block
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Nearly every writer I’ve ever met is a ‘pantser,’ preferring to plot by the seat of their pants, rather than a ‘plotter’ who knows how their story will…
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If you don't take your writing seriously, nobody else will
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On avoiding purple prose
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We are, many of us, aware of the danger of a single story, of a single representation defining and confining us to stereotypes. When we see diversity…
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On how to deal with deadlines or the lack of them
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