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Tag: writing tips

  • Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2021Monday, May 3, 2021
  • by Greta Kelly

A Plotter’s Guide to First Drafts

To plot, or not to plot? It’s the perennial question writers everywhere eventually face. The internet is rife with articles…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2020Wednesday, November 18, 2020
  • by Greta Kelly

Tips for Navigating the NaNo Blues

We’re sharing our best writing tips this month here on The Debutante Ball, and since this happens to coincide with…

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  • Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2020Thursday, July 2, 2020
  • by Yodassa Williams

Cutting Room Floor for The Goddess Twins

There is quite a bit that was shed from the original manuscript of The Goddess Twins to what has resulted…

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  • Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2020Monday, May 25, 2020
  • by Yodassa Williams

Advantages of writing for the 2020 Deb Ball

When I was in my undergrad program for fashion, I took my very first writing gig blogging for a recently…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, December 18, 2019
  • by Karen Osborne

How to write when you’re not writing

In 2009, I left my job as a high school English teacher and ran right smack dab into the Great…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2018Monday, November 26, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: What I Wished I Knew When I Was Starting Out

Missing my poetry-mom Lucille Clifton especially today. Here she is reading aloud a poem of hers that I love. Until I…

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  • Posted on Monday, November 26, 2018Sunday, November 25, 2018
  • by K.A. Doore

(Almost) Everything I Know About Writing I Learned from Fanfiction

I spent a fair amount of my youth writing dense, novel-length, & character-driven fanfiction (henceforth referred to as fanfic) until…

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  • Posted on Monday, January 15, 2018Saturday, January 13, 2018
  • by Cass Morris

The Beta Question

The above quote from the inestimable Neil Gaiman is a lot of why I’ve had beta readers since my fanfic…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2017Wednesday, November 29, 2017
  • by Kimmery Martin

Kimmery’s Top Ten Tips For A Good First Draft

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  Our topic this week is first drafts, and let’s be honest: I am not a trained writer. I don’t…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2015Sunday, December 6, 2015
  • by Heather Young

How Not to Write. How to Write.

I love this topic, because I know so much more about not writing than I do writing. Not writing is…

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