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“Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” —Voltaire
For those of us who don’t do fancy French, this means:
“We must cultivate our garden,” says Pangloss at the end of Voltaire’s Candide.
No sentiment could be truer for women who write. Stop focusing on the whole wide world. Instead, maintain a space that is your own and encourages the fruits of your labors to blossom.
But the process of growing our garden requires the right tools. Reading this blog and learning how to revise your own stories could help you cultivate your garden, obtain peace of mind, and establish your writing legacy. Happy reading and writing!
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Use This Empathy Check When Writing Your Problematic Characters
It’s been long established that your memoir shouldn’t be filled with Disneyesque do-good princesses and wicked villains. That’s lazy writing.
You know and I know that people have nuance. So how should you handle a bad guy in your memoir?
Everything I Know About Writing, I Learned from the Science of Reading**
Were you duped into believing people naturally learned to read and write? That these skills were reserved for the naturally gifted?
I was.
Find out why explicit instruction is so vital and also why how you learn to read can impact your future as a writer.
Brainstorming to Story Building
Got words on a page? You do? Well, that qualifies you as a writer.
But I’ll admit, the writer’s game drives me kind of cuckoo. There’s so much advice out there about overcoming writer’s block and finding inspiration, but little on how to construct a solid story. Even reading the best advice of bestselling authors, you’ll find more on overcoming resistance than a blueprint for how an actual author—actually writes.