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About the Class A great cover and fantastic blurb can get a reader to click, but how do you keep them turning the…
Motivational Minute with Angelique Bochnak #148: Have Faith in What Will Be
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How to Name Characters Without Losing Your Mind
If there’s one question you can expect to pop up in every writing group—big, small, new, or old—it’s something to the effect of,…
Three Ways to Find Critique Partners
As an editor and writing coach, I get a ton of questions from writers and one of the most common ones is: Where…
Five Ways to Make Writing Description a Little Less Painful (Plus What Always Works For Me)
This blog post was suggested to us by Kelley! If you want to suggest blog posts, you absolutely can by joining our Mighty…
7 Tips for Creating a Lasting Writing Career
I often get asked by writers and non-writers what the best tips are for building writing success. Full transparency, I’m not sure there…
Five Things to Do Next With Your NaNoWriMo Draft
If you are reading this, you have made it to December of 2021, and I am proud of you. Even if you didn’t…