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Reinventing the Car
Why creating a book is not like products in other industries
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How to Level Up Your Settings, Part 2
A lesson from video games on "environmental storytelling"
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How to Level Up Your Settings, Part 1
A lesson from video games on "environmental storytelling"
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Grieving the Loss of a Dream
And why you shouldn't "just be grateful"
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What I Would Do Differently With a Career Do-Over
Given all the insights and knowledge I have today
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How I Revise and Edit Later Drafts
And how I polish up my prose
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April 2023 Monthly Recap
In case you missed these posts from April 2023
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April 2023
Keeping Track of Subplots
How to visualize the balance in your story
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Tightening Your Prose: Part 2
Removing filler words and actions
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Tightening Your Prose: Part 1
Eliminating redundancies & closing scene "circles"
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Swag, Travel, Social Media, and Writing
Where and how to focus your efforts
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Procrastination or burnout?
Is it "laziness" or do you just need a break?
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