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• Planning for the Life of Your Work (Even If You’re Not Famous Yet): by Charlotte Jones Voiklis @janefriedman.com

• Spitballing Story Ideas: by C.S. Boyack
• The Unexpected in Your Writing: By Kathleen McCleary

• On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100: by Eleanor Lanahan

• Making writing too hard for yourself: by Daphne Gray-Grant
• Numbers game for writers: from Daphne Gray-Grant
• A (Mostly) Clean Challenge: Writing a Novel with Minimal Profanity: by Linda K Sienkiewicz
• Quick Tips to Spring Clean Your Writing Nook: by Colleen M. Story
• 10 Themes for Fiction Set in Spring: by Jessica Strawser
• Trust Your Instincts: Why Writing for Yourself Leads to Better Books: by Laura Stanfill @janefriedman.com
• 5 Ways Writing a Book Will Help You to Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius: by Rebecca Camarena
• Create the Career You Want: from Fox Print Editorial
• Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing: by Sarah Viren
• Making Time for Quiet Contemplation: by April Dávila

• Writing a Memoir: 6 Crucial Lessons: by Catherine McCall
• The Secret to Avoiding a Sagging Memoir Middle: by Lisa Cooper Ellison

• Quebec as a Setting in Crime Fiction: @mkinberg.bsky.social
• Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Susie Black’s The Case of the Croaked Coach: @mkinberg.bsky.social

• Meandering in the Middle of a Poem—What to Do? by Shutta Crum

• 7 Common Blogging Mistakes and How to Avoid Them for a Successful Blog: by Hugh Roberts

• What’s Your Brand? by Kay DiBianca
• Build Your Author Platform by Leveraging Organizational Relationships: by Lisa Tenor

• Should Authors Quit Social Media? by Sue Coletta

• Novelettes: Worth the Time and Effort? by Ann Gordon

• You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, But it Does Give You a Peek Inside: by Mike Martin

• My Twenty-Four Hour Dream: by Denise Beck-Clark

• Character Secret Thesaurus: Fleeing a Crime Scene: by Becca Puglisi
• Writing Unforgettable Characters: by Tammy L. Grace
• Will Readers Dislike My Bad Guy Turned Good? by Oren Ashkenazi
• The Importance of Flaws in Our Characters: by Beem Weeks
• Spotlight the Effect of Your Characters’ Energy: By Kathryn Craft

• Five Ways to Get Your Protagonist to Realize They’re the Problem: by Marissa Graff

• 3 Common Mistakes Writers Make with Conflict: by Janice Hardy
• Using a Character’s Personality Traits to Generate Conflict: by Angela Ackerman

• Can AI Be Funny? by Debbie Burke

• Hooking the Reader: by Dale Ivan Smith
• Center Your Darlings: from Mythcreants
• Why Readers Abandon Books (And How to Make Sure They Don’t): from Story Grid
• 10 Writing Strategies: by Polly Watt
• 3 Important Wake Up Calls For Screenwriters And Authors: from Bang2write
• Writing: Test Your Novel Structure: by Linda S. Clare
• Here’s what readers really hate: By Elaine Viets

• Run on Sentence: Definition and How to Fix Them: by Millie Dinsdale

• The Power of Unspoken Words: How to Write Subtext in Fiction: by K.M. Weiland

• Butt in the Chair: How Disability Changed My Writing Habits: by Catherine Tavares

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