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August 2024

What do readers consider a perfect beginning?
Let's rake over how to craft beginnings in fiction. There are many ways to do it right, and some ways to do it wrong.
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💻 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT: Nailing Beginnings and Endings
and an early bird discount for you so that September is the month you kickstart your writing
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How not to be a dick as a new author
and why it's good to remember that what goes around, comes around
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Not a Write Off vol: 8
The one where I am in novel limbo land, I stop calling the baby a baby, and get clobbered by a plastic bucket
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July 2024

Top shelf challenge entries in a library of: Zest
This writing helped me feel like summer is real and not an imagined memory from last year
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Three-minute writing challenge: Zest
If you stopped scrolling through Notes or your Instagram feed to read this, stay, for a little while longer. Writers who have spent this small amount of…
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Hello, from the other side of a finished book
and what it feels like to always miss your deadlines
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April 2024

🎥 REPLAY: How to Outline Your Novel
A mini-workshop on how to identify plot anchors, work on character to fill in the gaps, and the use of a grid template to fully outline your fiction…
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💻 WORKSHOP: How to Outline Your Novel
This is your invitation to join me for a one hour workshop and Q&A on the most voted for topic: how to outline your novel
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Abigail Mann
Top shelf challenge entries in a library of: Retreat
We're taking the prompt and exploring it from every angle. Here are this month's challenge winners.
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March 2024

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