Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was still in creative mode—churning out characters and plot lines—not questioning commas. Obsessing about word choice or grammar in early drafts; writing and re-writing dialogue or other minor moments; and generally letting the analytical side of the brain rule can stymie creativity. Spoiler alert: it always is.). Throw out the bad.

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 14, 2023

Here are a few to get you started: Four Way Books Prize $1000 Swamp Pink Prize $2000 Wergle Flump Humour Poetry Contest 1st Prize $2000 Already won a few creative writing competitions? Swamp Pink Formerly Crazy Horse, Swamp Pink accepts poetry but also prose. Let’s jump in. Find a good space or host it online.

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Smart Blogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What you need are some blog post examples to get your creative juices flowing. It can be challenging coming up with the perfect gift idea, and this blog post has 50 easy DIY gift ideas for the creatively challenged to the seasoned DIYer. Use your creative talents to make your post a work of art. No one reads your articles.

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

Paraphrasing poetry is a common creative and academic exercise that helps you gain a greater understanding of the art form. There are two ways to paraphrase a poem: Describe the poem in detail using prose or nonpoetic text to give readers a sense of what the original is like. It also helps to take notes that you can use later.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

If you’re a chief content officer , copywriter, designer, or programmer searching for ways to create more and better content in less time, you’ll find fresh ideas for improving your creativity, productivity, and writing skills with these best books from 2017. Efficiency: Building your team’s creativity, planning, and productivity.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What they’re looking for: According to their submission guidelines, the company is looking for 50-300-word works of “contemporary prose or poetry…that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don’t always know how to put into words.”

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Grammarly

MAY 2, 2024

For writers wanting to spice up the descriptive quality of their prose, epithets can enrich literary works by adding imagery and layers of meaning. 3 Memorability and rhythm : In poetry and prose, epithets can enhance the rhythm and flow of the text, as well as the sound quality when spoken aloud. Two, don’t be afraid to get creative!

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I’m a literal thinker, so it’s hard for me to be wildly creative. I’ve been focusing on it for two years, though I’ve always dreamed of being a writer. In some ways, I feel like I’ve grown, but mostly I get overwhelmed by all I have yet to learn. I read blog posts and craft books, thinking the advice sounds great and I can’t wait to try it.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Published three times a year, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays about writing, interviews, and reviews are covered. Rate: Prose: $10 – $100, Poems: $25 per piece. # An annual literary journal that publishes world-class fiction, poetry, prose, interviews, and craft essays. Build your portfolio. Grow your network.

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The Write Life

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mastering writing with sensory language can elevate your prose, help your audience empathize with your characters, and create an overall more engaging story. Using sensory language is important in creative writing for lots of reasons, including the ones listed above. Why is sensory language important? Set the scene.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Give your writing extra polish Grammarly helps you communicate confidently Write with Grammarly Fiction vs. nonfiction Fiction and nonfiction are two distinct categories of prose that serve different purposes and employ different narrative techniques. Creative nonfiction can also be called literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now maybe you’ll rethink that low pass you gave me in your creative writing class.) Typically, my creative process is to revisit and revise everything about a googol times. For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose. Photo by Franco Antonio Giovanella on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Joni B. Collect little humor gems.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do. Arrow (1963-66).

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Grammarly

MARCH 7, 2023

uses iambic pentameter to give the prose a more subtle musicality. Furthermore, it provided just enough structure to challenge him creatively. Challenge: Writing in iambic pentameter can be a creative challenge, forcing the writer to carefully consider each word and phrase and rearrange them until they fit into the meter.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

In this Q&A, she reveals some of the terrible titles it spat out (while keeping the really good ones to herself), acknowledges the complicated moral question of writers allowing ChatGPT to do their writing for them, and lists the many ways AI has been helpful to her both creatively and practically. Let’s just say I took one for the team.)

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Besides, there are plenty of free writing contests that encourage and inspire boundless creativity with real cash prizes and career-advancing opportunities! One of the best-loved small presses in the creative writing world, Graywolf Press hosts a variety of contests for both established and up-and-coming writers. Deadline: Monthly.

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Smart Blogger

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But adverbs rarely make your prose sound better. Whether you’re working on a novel, a school assignment, a piece of creative nonfiction, or even a sales copy , you want your verbs to pull their weight. Or you may turn to the same commonly used verbs over and over again, desperately trying to spice them up with adverb after adverb.

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Contently

APRIL 13, 2023

Similar to many creative types, I have spent hours over the past few months experimenting with generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Jasper.ai I have written about the importance of writing effective AI creative briefs and needed to take the next step using my own advice. to understand how they could help me produce better content.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discourse can include fictional and poetic works as well as nonfictional prose. Read on to learn how to write discourse. Your writing, at its best Grammarly helps you communicate confidently Write with Grammarly What is discourse? Discourse is the use of language to share ideas, insights, and information.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As you record dreams in your journal, you are creating an encyclopedia of plots, landscapes, characters, themes, and ideas you can return to any time you need material for your poetry and prose. Like a pot of broth simmering on the stove, the contents of our journals nourish us and provide the basis for countless delicious creations.

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Make a Living Writing

JUNE 14, 2023

Negative tone words can be weaved into prose in order for a particular situation or feeling to stand out in the reader’s mind. To Enhance Descriptive Language One of the biggest benefits of using negative tone words is the ability to elevate your prose and increase its effectiveness. Have you ever thought about your writing tone?

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

But somewhere in the last century, the shouty little mark fell out of fashion in literary prose. In creative writing, exclamation points have power, but not as much as you might think. (Samuel Richardson,  Pamela , 43). Exclamation points still serve in all those ways. Sabaa Tahir,  All My Rage , 242). I screamed.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learning about the art of creative writing in a creative environment requires a combination of planned social activities and a special writing group workshop designed to hone your writing skills. One unique aspect of this creative writing retreat is focusing on the writing process versus listening.

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Make a Living Writing

JULY 22, 2024

However, it’s not impossible to land poetry jobs, get paid for your prose, and even get a byline for publishing poetry. Where to Find Poetry Jobs If you want to tap into your more creative side, write poetry, and learn how to make money writing , check out these 14 poetry markets to get started. Probably not. Read the journal.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

It will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

Copywriting taught me to make each phrase count, and my prose is better for it. The age of novel writing is over. The dawn of a new era has begun — the Age of Copywriting — and it’s marked by one indisputable fact: People don’t have much time to read anymore. Everywhere you look, distractions abound. Then I had a revelation.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s little wonder then why writers, bloggers, copywriters, students, and creatives from all fields use swipe files to fine-tune their writing skills and brainstorm fresh ideas. Brian Kurtz once wrote, “you can’t beat a swipe file for deep insight and inspiration.” But what is a swipe file anyway? How can it improve your writing?

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

It will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A novel is a fictional work of prose that weaves together characters, plots, and settings to create a narrative world, capturing a specific theme or element of the human experience. In this article, well dive into the art and anatomy of the novel, exploring how a simple string of sentences transforms into a full-fledged literary journey.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 23, 2023

Types of epigraphs Epigraphs come in many forms, including prose, proverb , poetry, lyrics, and even dialogue. How to use an epigraph in your writing There aren’t established rules for including an epigraph, which gives writers a lot of creative autonomy. An epigraph is a short quote placed at the beginning of a piece of writing.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

literary prose. Plus, you’ll get to spend hours interviewing interesting people or creatively crafting stories. . Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? Maybe you’ve seen CEOs with a few productivity books and wondered how they had time to write them. . autobiographies.

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The Write Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While it’s not helpful for all kinds of writing, if you’re specializing in poetry or creative writing, it’s one of the go-to resources in the industry. Having it all in one place showed people that making a creative career was possible and a worthwhile endeavor. Poets and Writers Magazine.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In that situation, you’ve got to be creative,” he says. As you can see, most respondents value creativity and craft. In Vishal’s case, passion might mean finding creative ways to do his own market research. Everywhere I’ve worked, I’ve had a low budget , no staff, no resources, and limited access.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 12, 2023

Stephen Marche talks about the creative process behind Death of an Author , 95% written by AI, out now from Pushkin Industries. How authors might approach co-creating with AI if they want to work with traditional publishers What remains the same despite advances in technology: “Creative AI is going to change everything.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

I use and recommend Sudowrite as part of my creative process. You can try Sudowrite through my affiliate link: www.TheCreativePenn.com/sudowrite Amit Gupta is a science fiction writer, entrepreneur, and founder of Sudowrite, an AI-powered creative writing tool. Amit Gupta gives his tips in this interview. Amit: Thanks, Joanna.

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Grammarly

APRIL 3, 2023

Characters who speak like real people feel more vivid to readers, punchy copy grabs readers’ attention in ways more formal language can’t, and free verse poetry typically uses language in creative and innovative ways. Grammar organizes and directs our writing. It makes words’ and sentences’ meanings clearer and guides readers through text.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

After Gutenberg invented the printing press, Europe’s kings and bishops feared (correctly) that printing might encourage sedition and heresy. They identified material fit for reproduction and offered favored printers the exclusive right to copy it— “copyright.” But early copyrights were fantasies. The law granted authors copyrights for 14 years.

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