I stand by the window this morning, coffee in hand, watching the clouds scud over the mountains. I can barely see them because it's still mostly dark, but there's a pale light on the horizon to the east. That sliver of brilliant color turns the clouds from invisible dark-on-dark to charcoal on near black burgandy. …
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The key to turning out good stuff is rewriting. The key to grinding it out is consistency. – Forrest McDonald Let's just assume you have a killer idea for a story or article. You have great, multi-faceted characters against a dramatic backdrop. You KNOW it's going to sell. What now? How do you get the …
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Writers often get bogged down in the middle of their work because they keep going back and editing the beginning. Yes, sometimes changes need to be made as we discover different than what we'd originally planned, but editing - honest to goodness editing - should wait until after the first draft is completed. Why? Writing …
People who have broken legs use crutches. Writers who have broken sentences use crutch words. A crutch word is an empty word with no purpose. It's just a filler. Dandelion fluff. If you remove it from your sentence, you won't even notice. No one likes to hear someone fill their speech with these. No one will …
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