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Three Ways Top Gun Can Inspire Your Writing
by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon With buttered popcorn in one hand and a coke in the other, we search out the best spot to recline back and watch a good movie on the big screen. Some of us do this at home while others still go to a theatre. No matter…
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Make Writing Easier: 10 Tips to Sharpen Our Skills
by Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes, Ed.D. @khutch0767 Daily we write even when it's unaffiliated with our author careers. We write emails, texts, school notes, social media posts, and work documents. When we sit down to write professionally, we tend to believe our work here is what counts. But suppose we took all our…
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Writers, Do You Fear Success?
By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites Happy New Year! Did you set goals and resolutions? I want to finish three books, obtain five speaking engagements, and attend three conferences. My stomach flips when I ponder the possibilities. I’ve prayed about my plans. I desire to accomplish all God has for me. I…
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12 Research Sites To Help Your Writing
by Ane Mulligan @AneMulligan I ran into several research problems while writing my Great Depression era stories. The most problematic are the two books set in my hometown, Sugar Hill. The city didn’t incorporate until 1939, so there is no recorded town history prior to that. Before 1939, Sugar Hill…
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Don’t Depend 100% on Your Publisher
By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin In 2007, America’s Publicist Rick Frishman invited me to participate on the faculty of MegaBook Marketing University in Los Angeles, California. At that time, I was running a small literary agency and representing authors in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the…
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Character Voice: Unique as a Classic Car
by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon Every October, my husband and I venture down to the great state of Mississippi for the largest car show in the country—Cruisin’ the Coast. Over 9800 classic cars registered for the event this year and that doesn’t count all the cool vehicles that showed up without…
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