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Writing Honestly
I would ask them to tell about some childhood memory, that is, to write it as carelessly, recklessly, fast and sloppily as possible on paper. [...] Their only effort became to tell spontaneously,...
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Focus On: Fiction and Poetry Blogs
Did you know literature was an Olympic event until 1948? Of course, all creative submissions had to reference athletics in some way, and many think the quality of the work suffered as a result. That’s...
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What Makes a Post Freshly Press-able: How I Deal With Things
Every day, a handful of WordPress.com bloggers are featured in Freshly Pressed. And every day, many more wonder, “What do I have to do to get Freshly Pressed?” On The Daily Post, we’ll take a close...
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Community Pool: Poetry and Fiction
The Community Pool is for those of you looking for input, whether on post ideas, writing, blog design and layout, or anything else. If you have a post, page, or idea you want to bounce off someone,...
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Going Serial, Part II: If You Break It, They Will Come
What do Anna Karenina, The Three Musketeers, and the stories of Sherlock Holmes have in common? They all started as serialized projects, with installments appearing in magazines on a weekly or monthly...
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Weekly Writing Challenge: 1,000 Words
We blog for a million reasons, but in the end we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges help you push your writing boundaries and explore new ideas, subjects, and writing styles. To...
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NaNoWriMo Roundup: Seasoned Authors Share their Secrets
At the stroke of midnight tonight, aspiring writers everywhere will take a deep breath. One second later, their blank screens won’t be blank any longer — for quite a while. November 1st marks the start...
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On Blogging and Publishing Your Book: Authors Talk Shop
Last week, five published NaNoWriMo authors shared their insight about getting started with your own 50,000-word novel. One week (and 5,000 cups of coffee) into NaNo, we invited our panel of veteran...
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Focused on Fiction: Five Storytelling Tips
November — and with it, NaNoWriMo — might be drawing to a close, but fiction writers don’t stop telling stories just because another page is torn from the calendar. And whatever the season, slapping...
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“Free-fall into what’s happening.”
The Daily Post is taking a much-needed break for a few days, but we don’t want to leave you high and dry. We’ll be sharing some of our favorite quotes about the creative life. (And yes, Daily Prompts,...
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Perennial Favorites: Seasoned Authors Share Their NaNoWriMo Secrets
Last year, we asked five veteran NaNo authors for their advice on how to approach this event: they had each leveraged their NaNoWriMo project into a published novel (some more than once!), and they all...
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Perennial Favorites: Talking Shop with Published Bloggers
Last year, we asked five veteran NaNo authors (and WordPress.com bloggers) for their accumulated wisdom: each turned their NaNoWriMo project into a published novel. To inspire you current NaNoWriMo...
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Digging for Roots
Many writers and citizens of the world have explored what it means to find your roots and the essence of what makes you, you. To pull from the title of Thomas C. Wolfe’s book, which has become a...
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Storytelling, Slowed Down: On Writing Vertically
In a recent piece at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone writes about the gestation of ideas and vertical writing, or the process of slowing down and digging deeper when writing a story. He describes the...
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Resources for Storytellers: A Roundup
Whether you’re counting words all the way to 50,000 for National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) or just blogging at your own pace, we know you have a story to tell. (Fiction? Nonfiction? Who cares...
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