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1 day agoReview Amabaie
Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
You need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. She has this new book, “1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round,” which is sort of the advice book equivalent of that friend who cheers beside a marathon route, tossing out enthusiasm and Gatorade.
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4 days agoAnalysis Amabaie
The Uniqueness of the Human Writer
The fiction writer designs a plot, characters, and detail in order to create an intended effect or meaning. The best a bot can do is scramble for pre-existing literary patterns and throw something together. Its “creativity” depends on the massive collection of human-made content.
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8 days agoAnalysis Amabaie
The troubling trend with ghostwriting
Internationally acclaimed ghostwriter and persuasive writing coach Joshua Lisec has ghostwritten more than 80 books.
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3 weeks agoHow-to Amabaie
My top 5 tools to beat distractions and get more writing done - or any work, really
To avoid distractions, I enlist a particular set of tools. Whatever your writing platform - Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, or iOS - help is here.
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1 month agoExpression Amabaie
Writing from the Heart: Just the facts, ma'am
I love Mark Twain’s line, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” So here is a story of how I let a good story get in the way of the truth. My motto at the point when this story happened was facts didn’t matter, feelings did. I was young, and …
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1 month agoExpression Amabaie
Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them\
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives.
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1 month agoExpression Amabaie
How long will printed books continue to exist and be necessary in the future?
Books will live on if we allow them to remain. We will need a tactile world to remind us that we are still here, that we can suffer and heal, make considered judgments, and love in a way that only biological beings can.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Amabaie
‘You can see it as a revenge fantasy’: The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible
God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss aims to shine a light on the contributions to Christianity by imprisoned workers
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1 month agoHow-to Amabaie
How nonfiction authors can tell powerful stories
Margaret Atwood and John Grisham tell powerful stories. Non-fiction writers can learn from them.
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1 month agoHow-to Amabaie
Let's keep our writing simple, precise, cogent and clear
But sometimes it's worth sending a reader to the dictionary if the word fits the nuance of the writing.
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1 month agoExpression Amabaie
Lisa Gardner: 10 Lessons I Learned in 30 Years of Writing Suspense
When people first meet authors, they always ask the same question—how did you get started in this business? I’m a bit a rarity. Wrote my first novel at seventeen, sold it at twenty, hit the bestsel…
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1 month agoLevel Up Amabaie
Level 36
Amabaie is now level 36 with 4,535,800 XP.
View Unlocks- Tribe Membership The maximum amount of tribes you can join has been raised by 10 to a total of 175.
- List Submission The maximum amount of items you can submit to a unique social list has been raised by 1 to a total of 10.
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2 months agoExpression Amabaie
Sam Anderson on writing and drawing - Austin Kleon
The thing that unites good writing and good drawing — authentic writing and authentic drawing — is the exploratory line.
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2 months agoHow-to Amabaie
I've published 60 novels - and these 5 free writing tools helped make it possible
From drafting manuscripts to tracking edits and creating book covers, I get the job done with the help of these indispensable - and free - apps.