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Write Better: Get Another View

3 Comments / Critique Circle, drafting, Editing, revising, Style, two-page view, Writing /

Another view.  We must have other eyes on our manuscripts no matter how painful the corrections and comments.  It’s too easy to write alone, get lost in our own words, not see ambiguity, sentence weaknesses, lack of clarity.  We have to seek constructive criticism.  Without it, we can’t possibly get better. I hope someone reading this post is a high school […]

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Breakup: When to divorce your project

10 Comments / burnout, Dan Ariely, ebook publishing, ebooks, FarmVille, indie publishing, Joe Konrath, John Locke, revising, selling ebooks, Wired Magazine, writing addiction /

Do you have at least one novel, short story or poem you’ve been editing for years?Do you find tweaking words easier than starting something new?If so, you may need to divorce that project.Breaking up is hard to do.  Describing gamers’ addiction to FarmVille in a Wired Magazine article (“Gamed,” July 2011), Dan Ariely explains why it’s

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