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Writing Resources: Stephen King On Writing
Today I'm bringing back a post that's been sitting in the archives for a while. Stephen King's On Writing is one of the most important books ever written on the craft of writing,...
Creative Writing Prompts for Animal Lovers
Today's post includes a selection of prompts from 1200 Creative Writing Prompts. Enjoy! Animals have played a significant role in literature throughout history. They appear in...
From 101 Creative Writing Exercises: Couplets and Quatrains
Today’s writing exercise comes from 101 Creative Writing Exercises, which takes writers on an adventure through different forms and genres while offering tools, techniques, and...
Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain
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 characters. For others, it's hard to write...
Emotions and Poetry
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ― Robert Frost Emotions are fickle. Sometimes they're clear and brilliant: we're happy, sad,...
How to Misuse Punctuation Marks
What is it about punctuation marks that cause so many bad sentence constructions? You know the sentences I'm talking about. They've got random commas, missing quotation marks,...

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