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A Guide to Creative Writing
Storytelling: What is a Plot?
Today's post includes excerpts from What's the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing, chapter two: "Plot." It's a book that lays out the fundamentals of creating fictional...
How to Analyze Poetry
An expert is someone who has mastered their craft through a process of study and practice. Poets are no different. It takes years to become an expert poet. An important part of...
Punctuation Marks: Commas and Clauses
There's a fine art to using commas. Today we'll look at how commas work with clauses -- both dependent clauses and independent clauses. And don't worry if you're not sure which...
A Guide to Descriptive Writing
Writing description is a necessary skill for most writers. Whether we're writing an essay, a story, or a poem, we usually reach a point where we need to describe something. In...
How to Increase Your Writing Productivity
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 of writing done. But with...
Writing Tips: Abolish the Adverbs
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” ~ Stephen King In the writing world, adverbs have a bad reputation for being weak and causing unnecessary clutter. But sometimes adverbs...

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