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A great new post from The Write Practice by Michael Mahin, focusing on attitudes adopted by great writers.

The Writer’s Circle has recently listed twelve Twitter accounts they believe all writers should be following.

D.M. King on six things to consider once you have finished your first draft.

From Fantasy Faction, an article by Adrian Faulkner on how he uses Scrivener to outline.

If you are an indie author, you know that your books and eBooks must be formatted properly before being submitted to the publishing platform. Traditional, on-demand, and eBook publishing services usually have exacting standards. You want your book to appear professional by adhering to those standards. Most of us don’t want to spend the time and tedium working through our manuscript…

This week we came across this article, “Writing Success: How To Engineer Your Novel For It” by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com, a novelist and nonfiction writer. Larry first addresses whether storytelling is an art or science. The answer, of course, is both. He briefly discusses how work, the crafting of them and then spends some time talking about…

Whether you are writing nonfiction or a novel, research is almost always part of the process (or should be!). You might be a mystery novelist who writes your first draft, then turns to research to make your characters, settings, and topics more realistic and lively, adding the details and rewriting. Or perhaps you write historical…

In my experience, there are two kinds of authors when it comes to editing: those who love it and those who hate it. I have not met one yet that says, “yeah, it’s ok.” But even those of us who love it sometimes find parts of it a grind. Perhaps the most difficult thing about…

Proofreading, Editing, Formatting, Indexing Do you need an editor? While most writers get pretty good at editing (if we say so ourselves), it is always better to have a third party edit your work. Whether it is us or someone else, make sure you get someone with experience editing professionally! Our editors have over 25 years of…