books

  •             There is no writer or author out there that can honestly tell you that they haven’t compared their writing to other writers. Whether it was a favorite author, a friend, a blogger, a newsletter, an article they read, a book, no matter where they found a piece of literature that they enjoyed, every one

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  • If there is one thing every author can agree with, it’s that there are no two words worse than this: writer’s block.

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  • The Psyche of Characters

    This week’s article is going to be a little different from the first few in the way that it is less about writing advice and more about the psyche of characters. Something that was brought up in several of my classes during college was the significance of characters in the story. Not only in the

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  • The Anxious Writer

                Being a writer and author comes with its own set of hardships, but the one hardship that often gets overlooked is the anxiety that can come from writing a book, especially that first one. Writing Frosty Nights, my first full-length novel, came with fears I had no idea I would have. Suddenly, I found

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  • A Body of Work

                Most writers go into writing a book with a basic understanding of what each layer of writing entails: an outline, a rough draft, a revised draft, and the final draft. Often, we as writers want that first draft to be absolutely perfect, ready to publish with grammar, spelling, format, structure, detail, and continuity on

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