Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

As a literary editor and writer, I love working in the world of words. As a literary editor and writer, it’s rewarding to interview people in the know, like bookstore aficionado Jay Rohfritch, owner of Good Books in the Woods. It’s a lot of fun to be a literary editor and writer and see books come to life!

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Jane Friedman

JULY 16, 2024

Today’s guest post is by Allison K Williams ( @guerillamemoir ). For many writers, platform is a dirty word. If you’re a more literary writer (where what attracts readers to your work is the quality of the prose and the depth of the concept), start working your way up the literary magazine ladder.

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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. When these writers needed to create a new piece of content, swipe files gave them something to lean on. But what is a swipe file anyway?

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Photo by Aleksandr Barsukov on Unsplash Today’s post is by author and educator Deborah Williams. If you’re a serious writer, chances are good that you have a battered copy of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird on your shelf (or, if you’re like me, maybe you’ve committed large chunks of it to memory). Are you talking to other parents?

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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. Why do writers use epithets?

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Jane Friedman

MAY 14, 2024

Photo by Fallon Michael on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Gina DeMillo Wagner , author of Forces of Nature. The prose has an immersive quality as I navigate complicated grief, investigate his cause of death, and eventually find my footing and place in the world. Still, present tense was a risk and a technical challenge.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Step up your writing game and meet fellow writers with The Deep Dive Workshop, a 10-week series from the podcast hosts of The S**t No One Tells You About Writing. Each week you’ll hear from expert writers and editors, followed by workshops led by Bianca, Carly or CeCe. I’m a beginning writer. Work from the foundation up.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today’s post is by Bethany Saltman and Fran Hauser , book coaches and co-hosts of the podcast BOOKBOUND. We use the seed sentence from the writing teachers Marie Ponsot and Rosemary Deen: “They say __ but my experience tells me __” to help writers discover their counterintuitive ideas. Is there room for it? Let’s face it.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2024

Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. The editor’s work here doesn’t differ a lot from what it would be when editing any prose piece. Scholars generally have two very different venues in which to publish their work, and hence two different audiences as well.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio Today’s post is by Tzivia Gover , author of Dreaming on the Page. Not all authors remember or rely on their dreams, but dreamers and journal-keepers are uniquely blessed as writers. Although writers’ dreams are often the exception to that rule.) Write regularly—and better. Build a better relationship.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photo by Steve Johnson Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. One of the characters in the great short novel Lord Nelson Tavern (1974) by Canadian writer Ray Smith dismisses Jane Austen because all she wrote about were “the absurd concerns of silly small-town girls in England around 1800.”

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Photo by Franco Antonio Giovanella on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Joni B. But am I a humor writer? As a writer, however, I rarely paid attention to this reality. For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose. Cole , author of Party Like It’s 2044 : Finding the Funny in Life and Death.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Writers can take advantage of this audible quality using assonance. But assonance is also a way for writers to create rhythm and repetition without rhyming. Assonance can also be sprinkled throughout prose to stress certain words, build a mood, and give prose a poetic quality. The post What is Assonance?

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ghostwriting a memoir means collaborating with a professional writer who remains anonymous. Edit and Revise Once we have a complete draft, we’ll go through several rounds of editing and revising to polish the prose, clarify ideas, and ensure the flow of your memoir is smooth. Need Help Ghostwriting a Memoir? I Can Assist!

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 14, 2024

The trap many aspiring authors and beginner writers (especially young writers ) fall into is they believe if they mimic a famous author or writer, they’ll be popular too. Smart writers and copywriters know what word choice matters. This is true for most writers — even experienced, well-known ones. But it’s vital.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer and book coach Amy Goldmacher. I did have a long list of things I wanted to accomplish: revise an old project and start a new one; write a newsletter/blog post, draft two essays, work on marketing, and so on. Ah, a writing retreat. Doesn’t the idea sound amazing?

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2023

Photo by Akhilesh Sharma on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from the recently published Build a Better Business Book: How to Plan, Write, and Promote a Book That Matters by Josh Bernoff ( @jbernoff ). She sounds like a lot of the writers I work with.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So, Fergal’s article felt like a rallying cry for me and any other writer who has had to argue with stakeholders about why their buzzword bingo content does not sound more “professional.”. As he argues, “even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose.” arrives on site?

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Smart Blogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What you need are some blog post examples to get your creative juices flowing. To this end, we have scoured the internet to find 20+ successful blog posts in 10 popular niches. These blog posts not only cover a topic of interest to their target audience but also have features that can be used in any niche.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Today’s post is excerpted from the book The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments by John Matthew Fox ( @bookfox ). I don’t like studying first sentences of books—a sentence really doesn’t give the reader enough information or the writer enough room. Now, many writers start their books with a mystery.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2011

I mean, he’s got a goofy looking avatar, he’s shorn closer than a sheep and he sends me good posts. The last time Men with Pens saw me, I had just written a guest post for them entitled Get a Rush from Your Writing. So for my next great endeavor, I’d like to discuss how a writer evolves. What more can I say?

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio Today’s post is by book coach Robin Henry. Writers are frequently advised to read more to improve their writing. You’ll find books on this topic, such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer and How to Read Like a Writer by Erin Pushman, but they tend to take a generalist approach.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Photo by Jean-Paul Wettstein Today’s post is by editor Tiffany Yates Martin. But here’s advice I wish I could offer to every writer tying themselves into knots trying to find that magical first line: Let it go. The most perfect prose in the world won’t compensate for a story that doesn’t set a hook that makes readers want to read on.

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Grammarly

MARCH 7, 2023

uses iambic pentameter to give the prose a more subtle musicality. If you’re interested in learning more about the fundamentals of poetry, check out this blog post ! Writers today use iambic pentameter for a variety of reasons. Writers use iambic pentameter for tradition, rhythm, or certain effects like emphasis.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

Author Elisa Lorello’s exploratory dive into ChatGPT led her to discover its usefulness to fiction and nonfiction writers, and she shares them all in her new book The AI Author Assistant: How to Use Chat GPT to Optimize Your Writing Progress and Income While Retaining Your Human Touch. Let’s just say I took one for the team.)

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Article Writing

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hiring a content writer for your marketing agency is part art, part science and part nightmare. At some point, it becomes a little tempting to log on to any freelance writing platform, post a job description, and then hire the best person who applies within the next hour or so. Hiring The Right Writer For Your Marketing Agency.

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Since it can be hard for a writer to know where to find them, we did the legwork for you. We found 40 reputable, well-reviewed, free writing contests for poets, fiction writers, essayists and more. And if you’re still hungry for more opportunities, we also have posts on writers grants and writing fellowships.).

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Smart Blogger

JANUARY 8, 2024

There are many tutorials that can teach you how to write a blog post. Read through them and you can learn how to craft a perfectly serviceable blog post. In this post — this ultimate, step-by-step guide — we’ll share tips used by professional freelance writers to create spellbinding posts that are adored by thousands.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some elements that you’ll find in creative nonfiction include: 1 Scene setting Writers focus on the tangible details about a time and place to immerse their readers in a scene. By using different narrative structures, the writer can control the pace at which events unfold and draw the reader further into the story.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman. When homegrown writers sought publication, printers said, We’ll print your work—if you pay for it. Writers and inventors are the only two occupations granted Constitutional protection. Why pay to publish?

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Grammarly

JANUARY 23, 2023

An epigraph is a short quote that a writer uses to set up the literary work that follows. By introducing the story with this reference, the writer prepares readers to enter a world full of disruption and disorder. Writers use epigraphs for different reasons. These famous lines are the book’s epigraph.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For writers and readers alike, it can be difficult to tell the difference—especially when the two genres often intersect. Fiction refers to literature that is not grounded in real-life events but is made up or created from a writer’s imagination. This example illustrates the problem of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

That person had some help from another writer, a ghostwriter. . literary prose. blog posts. Famous writers sometimes hire ghostwriters to keep producing work when they don’t have the time, ability, or interest to continue writing themselves. Several writers are contracted to create a series of books under one pen name.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discourse can include fictional and poetic works as well as nonfictional prose. In fact, it’s organized into three categories: Written discourse: Composed of written works like essays, blog posts, and books. Sometimes, discourse writers have additional goals, like informing, persuading, or evoking empathy in their readers.

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Contently

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, Paul Roetzer , the CEO of Marketing AI Institute, recently claimed in a podcast that generative AI reduces the average blog post writing and production time down from seven hours to two. A blog post of 1,000 words or less? Do you want conversational prose, technical writing, or sector-specific terminology?

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With the pandemic appearing in the rear-view mirror for most of us, we’re greeted with more options to attend retreats that appeal to any writer. This post will surely meet you with a writer’s retreat that works for your budget, even if you’re stuck at home. Are you staying at home and looking for a retreat?

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Jane Friedman

JULY 19, 2023

Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash Today’s post is by book coach and Enneagram teacher Dani Abernathy. Writers aren’t supposed to put too much of themselves into their story, right? It’s not your protagonist, or your plot, or your prose. Your impact Most writers don’t think about the impact they want their writing to have.

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