Hello again readers! I hope you’re well and healthy. Me? A little funky. Really tired. No other symptoms that—to my knowledge—line up with Covid-19, but I’m considering if I feel funky tomorrow calling and scheduling a test anyway, just to be on the save side. And if it isn’t going to bankrupt my bank account.

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Both the video and blog provided by Ckat Myla

Set your chapter free: Knowing when it's time to post

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Hello, readers! I hope you’ve all had a pretty good weekend and are back and ready to talk about writing, because we’ve got an interesting topic here today. Which is a request topic, but in a broader sense than the original seeker intended.

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You know, this is the first time I think I’ve had a post fall on April 1st, also known as April Fools’ Day. And part of me really wondered if I should do an April Fools’ Day post with this week’s Being a Better Writer.

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Hello readers, and welcome back to another Monday installment of Being a Better Writer! Though today just isn’t any old Monday. Today is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so named in the honor of the individual whose name it bears.

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Or: Yet Another Way to Manage Pacing.

Welcome back readers! How are things going with you? Well and healthy I hope? Washing your hands? Using a mask? Doing your part?

I hope so. Globally, it’s still a pandemic, and we shouldn’t forget that.

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In this video I show you the basics of world building. Consider it a sneak peek into the panel I’m going to give at Galacon 2019. But of course, the panel itself will be much longer and much more interactive. This video is also a chance to find out how I look in real life, if you were wondering about that. I hope you won’t be disappointed with what you see. ;P

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After having written each of the main cast in this fanfic, and while I suffer through a period of writer's block in it, I've decided to write a blog post about how I capture each of their personalities and ways of talking through text. I've ordered them by their first appearance in my fic.

Rarity

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Hello writers! It’s time for Being a Better Writer once more, and once again we’re returning to a topic that’s so well-worn it may as well have left a groove in the site itself.

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All right. So, yesterday's incarnation of this post, to what is now great irony, started with a worried critique of Wordpress' freshly rolled out posting interface. To be specific, it critiqued the poor interface design, but also noted with a faint hint of worry that something so new was bound to have some surprises of a possibly unpleasant variety.

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Worsening: Your sister broke her leg. You get her to the car and reach into your pocket. No keys. Ugh! Go to the house. It's locked. Of course it is; the keys are inside. You crawl through the open front window. Get your sister into the car and start the engine. Try to. It won't start. No gas. You bang the wheel and grab your phone, dialing press 911. When the operator answers, your phone dies. You hit your head against the wheel and look up. The police are racing down the

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Hello readers! It’s Tuesday, which if you’re a long-time reader of this site, you know is a little unusual for a Being a Better Writer post, usually only happening on the occurrences of a holiday or a work shift taking me away on Monday.

Yesterday was the former. I hope you all made the most of it!

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Do not become attached to your ideas.

Let’s put that in a positive statement. Become attached to your successes. Though. Really. Be suspicious of all attachments in your writing. For beginning and intermediate writers, this almost always means your plot ideas.

There are no new ideas. There, I said it. Not yours, not mine, not anybody’s.

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Hello readers! I hope you’re all having a good Monday so far, and are looking forward to another installment of Being a Better Writer!

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This post was originally posted May 23rd on the site, but was not linked elsewhere. So to kick your weekend off right, we're putting the preview here at last! You can find the full phttps://maxonwriting.com/2022/05/23/being-a-better-writer-music-to-write-to/ost here.

Welcome back readers!

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Okay, first of all, I need to apologize for this post coming so late in the day. I know that yesterday I said I would have it up this morning, but as some of you likely noticed ... that didn't happen. What did happen was that last night, as I sat down to put together what would have been this morning's post, it ... Well, it wouldn't go together. I was nursing a headache, tired, and after a frustrating time spent slapping together a less-than-subpar BaBW post, I canned the

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Hello again, readers, and welcome to yet another Being a Better Writer post with an ominous, math-based title!

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