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A Guest Blog by Jodie Hurst The age of Artificial Intelligence is here, and you may be confused as to how you should feel about it. Should you feel happy that super-efficient tools can aid your writing? Or should it alarm you that AI can produce in seconds what it takes you hours or […]
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So you’ve finished writing your book—perhaps a lifelong dream—and now you want to get it published. Where do you go from here? You poured your heart and soul into the writing, and I hope you also spent countless hours editing and revising. Any seasoned expert will tell you: All writing is rewriting. Certainly the writing […]
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How do you become a better athlete, musician, scholar—or anything? You know. Practice. You run drills, play scales, review flashcards, whatever it takes. So how do you become a better writer? Speaking only for myself, I feel I get better by exercising my writing muscles. In other words, I write. Many of my colleagues swear […]
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You have a great idea and you want to start writing a book. You love to write. You’re told you have a way with words. Your friends and family might even be encouraging you to write. But you struggle with: How to begin How to start fleshing out your ideas How to know whether the […]
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Writing can be grueling. Some days you feel you have what it takes. Other days, you want to go back to bed. Even after writing almost 200 books, including 21 New York Times bestsellers, some mornings the blank page just stares at me. I feel like a fraud, fear I’ve lost it or never had […]
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