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What I Learned About Writing This Week…from Becca J. Campbell

What happens to a creative when she’s not creating? She either wilts, or she gets restlessly itchy… .

What I Learned about Writing This Week…from Taking a Shower

Sometimes, a writer’s just gotta get clean. Sometimes, fellow writers, what we need is a shower.

What I Learned About Writing This Week…from the Dark Stuff

I’m not afraid of the Dark. But this past Sunday, I got to a point in the story where I knew the Dark Stuff was coming. I looked at my computer screen, watched the cursor blink at me a few times, and said aloud, “I don’t want to write this.” I closed the file and walked away. I was in dire need of rescue…

What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Seeing a Friend Get Published

I’ve just returned home from a celebration honoring a guy you might have heard about before. His name is Aaron Pogue, and he is a published author…

What I Learned About Writing This Week…from Georges Polti

Georges Polti’s The thirty-Six Dramatic Situations serves as interesting reference material because of his basic premise: that there’s no such thing as an original plot. Humankind exhausted its store of fresh, new situations long ago; “there is nothing new under the sun…”