Posted on June 24, 2024 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and creative process advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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9 tips for maintaining creative focus: K.M. Weiland offers her strategies for juggling life and writing, including thinking of them as a "both" and not "either/or" (Helping Writers Become Authors).
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Writing hard truths and writing nonfiction: Joanna Penn interviews former FBI special agent Efren Delgado, who has written a book about counterintuitive psychology (The Creative Penn).
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Where are the female fictional characters with ADHD?: Author Lisa Timoney found herself looking in literature, in vain, for a character that reflected her eldest daughter's experience (Women Writers, Women's Books).
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Love to hate them: Author Sarah J. Sover describes four types of unlikeable characters and explains how to make them work in your writing (Writer's Digest).
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Choosing the chosen one: Speaking of dislike ... Vaughn Roycraft knows that "the chosen one" is a trope that causes many eyes to roll, but he still used it in his work; he explains why he did and also why he thinks it paid off (Writer Unboxed).
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