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Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Two weeks ago, I talked about how many drafts a writer needs. As with everything, it depends on a number of elements. I wanted to provide a contrasting sort of comparison …
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Brandon Sanderson is a writer who goes through many revisions. He talks about this over several years during his BYU class lectures on YouTube, and I wanted to distill his process down from several videos, which I will link at least one of them in the description for the podcast and below this blog article for anyone who wants to hear him talk about it more in depth.
Paperback Writer, The Beatles (1980) Written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership, the song was at number one for two non-consecutive weeks. The song's lyrics are in the form of a letter from an aspiring author addressed to a publisher. The author badly needs a job and has written a paperback …
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Hello Lovelies. This week I'd like to highlight 5 of the most often mentioned books about writing that I've heard about. Part memoir, part writing instruction, these books are touted all across the writing scene as being essential reading for anyone looking to become a writer. Let's dive in. Sometimes the Magic Works, by Terry …
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Last week we talked about some movies about writers, and this week I wanted to jump into the mix with some Podcasts which are by writers, for writers, and which I recommend and listen to almost daily. Writing Excuses (Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Daniel Wells) Writing Excuses is a podcast hosted by …
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Hey there lovelies! I thought it would be fun to share a few movies this week that deal with writers as characters. It is my hope that you are interested in these writers and can see yourselves in their own struggles and journeys. Let's see what I've dug up.
What are your five favorite books, and why? Who are your favorite authors? What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
