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Writing Advice – Volume 20 Number 4

By B. Lynn Goodwin

  10 Questions To Help You Distinguish Voices     By B. Lynn Goodwin In the Independent Study class I teach for Story Circle Network, people ask all kinds of questions. This term one person was concerned that all her characters sounded the same. I had her find objectives, obstacles, and strategies to overcome those

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Writing Advice – Volume 19 Number 3

By B. Lynn Goodwin

    Incredible Writing Retreats to Attend in 2016 This is excerpted from a piece by Susan Shain. It originally appeared on December 22, 2015 at The Write Life, http://thewritelife.com/writing-retreats/ Do you dream of getting away to write, but need some guidance on the next steps for your novel? Want to meet and work with

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By B. Lynn Goodwin

Share Your Opinions: Why Book Reviews Matter and How You Can Help Written by B. Lynn Goodwin and originally published on Amber Starfire’s Writing Through Life, https://writingthroughlife.com/ Whether you’re an author or not, one of the kindest gifts you can give to any writer is a constructive honest review. It doesn’t have to be long

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Writing Advice – Volume 21 Number 1

By B. Lynn Goodwin

26 Writing Tips to Help You Write Like the Pros The following is an excerpt from Ajinkya Goyal’s piece, which can be found here: airborneorange.com/36-writing-tips. As a blogger, writing is no doubt an integral part of your life. Be it fiction, or non-fiction, the quality of your writing should never dip below brilliant. You would no doubt have noticed that you

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Writing Advice – Volume 21 Number 4

By B. Lynn Goodwin

  Writing Advice: What an Editor Looks For An interview with Lynn Yvonne Moon by B. Lynn Goodwin When I submitted Never Too Late: From Wannabe to Wife at 62 to Koehler Books, www.koehlerbooks.com, the acquisitions editor who read it was Lynn Moon. She’d been a finalist in Writer Advice’s 2015 Flash Fiction Contest, and

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Writing Advice – Volume 19 Number 4

By B. Lynn Goodwin

     Questions and Tons of Advice An interview with Meredith Maran by B. Lynn Goodwin Meredith Maran is a prolific, lifelong writer. Recently she edited a collection called WHY WE WRITE ABOUT OURSELVES: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature. Anthologies appeal to those who seek diverse

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Writing Advice – Volume 21 Number 2

By B. Lynn Goodwin

WHY I WRITE: FASCINATING QUOTES FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS found on Aerogram Studioswww.aerogramstudios.com “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.” ~~Harper Lee   “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what

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Writing Advice – Volume 20 Number 3

By B. Lynn Goodwin

10 Tips on Writing from Joyce Carol Oates     Collected BY MARIA POPOVA for Brain Pickings,https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/19/joyce-carol-oates-10-tips-on-writing/ In a recent tweeting spree, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates offered ten tips on writing — a fine addition to this master-list of famous authors’ wisdom on the craft. 1. Write your heart out.2. The first sentence can

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