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36 Tips for Writing Just About Anything
Basic tips for writing just about anything. There’s a lot more to writing than just typing words. Writing well takes years of study, practice, and experience. It requires diligence and attention to...
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21 Proofreading and Editing Tips for Writers
Proofreading and editing tips for writers. The human mind is a funny thing; it likes to play tricks on us. For example, when we proofread and edit our own writing, we tend to read it as we think it...
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Writing Tips For Staying on Your Game
Stay on your game with these writing tips. Believe it or not, there are a few writing tips that we writers can steal from athletes, strategies that show us how to stay in shape and on top of our game....
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Writing Tips: Every Word Matters
Writing tips and word choices. Have you ever seen the movie Throw Momma From the Train? It’s a classic 80s comedy about the hilarious misadventures of a writing instructor (Billy Crystal) and one of...
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Writing Tips for Getting and Staying Organized
Writing tips to help you get organized. I’m a pretty organized person. Over the years, I have spent countless hours reorganizing everything from the kitchen cupboards to my clothes-packed closet. Now,...
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22 Quick and Dirty Tips for Writing Critiques
Quick and dirty tips for getting and giving writing critiques. If writers don’t know what’s broken, how can they possibly fix it? Critiques are essential during a writer’s early development. A good...
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Writing Tips: Abolish the Adverbs
Are they slowly running or are they jogging? Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers. Adjectives modify nouns whereas adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, adjectives, phrases, and clauses. In fact, an...
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Writing Tips for Better Productivity
Increase your productivity with these writing tips. It’s not easy to find time to write. Even professional writers get caught up in paperwork and marketing and have to scramble to get the actual work...
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Writing Tips: Carry a Notebook
How many writing tips can you fit in your pocket? It’s one of those writing tips that pops up everywhere–on lists of writing advice, in quotes bequeathed to us by the masters of writing, and even from...
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Five Writing Tips for Kicking Writer’s Block and Getting Inspired
Writing tips to invigorate you when you’re feeling uninspired. Every writer has been there: staring at a blank screen, waiting for the words to arrive. But they don’t. The words just won’t come. They...
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Writing Tips: Kill Your Darlings
Writing tips: kill your darlings. Some writing tips are cryptic. When I first came across writing advice that said “kill your darlings,” I thought it meant that we should kill off our favorite...
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The Only Two Writing Tips You’ll Ever Need
You only need two writing tips: read and write. I love collecting writing tips. You never know when you’re going to stumble across a golden nugget of wisdom that will make your writing richer and more...
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10 Simple Tips for Self-Editing
Writing tips for self-editing. If you’re the token writer at your office, among your friends, or in your family, then you are probably asked on a regular basis to edit, review, or proofread written...
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Writing Tips For Staying on Your Game
Stay on your game with these writing tips. Believe it or not, there are a few writing tips that we writers can steal from athletes, strategies that show us how to stay in shape and on top of our game....
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42 Fiction Writing Tips for Novelists
Writing tips for fiction writers. The more I explore fiction writing, the more complex and multi-layered it becomes. Through the processes of brainstorming, outlining, researching, writing, and...
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Writing Tips: Eliminate Redundancies
Eliminate redundancies to improve your writing. Writers are human, and sometimes we make mistakes. You’re probably aware of the most common mistakes in writing: comma splices, run-on sentences, mixing...
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Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain
Create a villain with today’s writing tips. When it comes to writing fiction, we each have our own unique challenges. For some of us, it’s a struggle to come up with names for our characters. For...
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15 Quick and Dirty Writing Tips
You can’t have too many writing tips! The first time someone told me “show, don’t tell,” I had no idea what they were talking about. Show what? Isn’t writing, by its very nature, telling? I was a young...
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The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever
The best writing tips ever Today, I’m sharing one of the oldest and most popular posts on Writing Forward. This one dates back to 2007, but it’s still one of the most-visited posts on the blog and one...
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10 Tips for Writing a Book
Tips for writing a book Writing a book is a big deal. It takes a lot of time and effort, especially if you want to do it right, which means creating something that people will find entertaining or...
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