“Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.” —Catherynne M. Valente
It was three forevers ago. My favorite hat was a beautiful, white felt Charlie 1 with a pink and silver band. Simple. Understated. Just a touch of bling…
Find your editing partnership.
“An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don’t write in a vacuum, and we don’t publish in a vacuum.” —David Bergen
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Hey, writer! Your wordsmithing skills are strengthening. You’re crafting sentences now, and you know it. Still—there are things to think about.
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Writing has a purpose: to be read. When written thoughts are master-crafted, the brilliance of the work shines when a reader’s eyes find it.
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One of the biggest struggles is the “stuck place” that goes along with over-thinking everything: plot or flow, content or structure, word choices, word count, the number of adverbs!
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Write interesting characters with depth, the kind that draw a reader into the story. There’s something in the details.
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What do you personally want out of your writing this year? This is just for you. It’s not word count, a finished manuscript, or sales. What do you want from the craft?
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What? You don’t have a circle? You need a tribe, a circle!
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