practices

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Using numbers to Make words
Writing books might be easier by the numbers. We can use numbers to keep our productivity steady.
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Cracking spines on your craft
Owning craft books is a mark of experience. The mark that is indelible, though, requires cracking spines.
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Write to live longer
Hemingway said that for him, it was write or die — but he really meant it was write and die, and then live again in your writing.
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Finding your community of joy
The one thing you can count on from MFA degrees is community, he says. He also warns us about borrowing tuition money for any arts degree. That tuition makes an automatic community for those who weathered the workshop critiques and writing over a two or three-year course of study.
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Finding good work between jobs
If you come away from the freedom of job time with a new practice of writing an hour a day, that can sustain you, both during unemployment as well as afterward.
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Open-minded rules help you make books
Rules for writing from John Steinbeck are more open-ended. He was a Nobel Laureate. 50 years ago, his rules appeared in the Paris Review.
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10 Habits of Successful Writers
Donald Murray wrote an essay for the magazine The Writer that sums up 10 habits that lead to writing success.
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How to Show Spunk with Sentences
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How to do beta reading
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How Memoirs Make Meaning

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