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Flatlining Your Theme: How to Immortalize Your Creativity by Dying

January 28, 2025

Looking to elevate your story’s theme? Josh Wilcox, experienced developmental editor and bibliophile, knows all about it. Enjoy this guest post on how to craft…

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11 Ideas to Write Yourself Away From the Cliff’s Edge

October 6, 2021

When you’ve written tension into your novel so well, you don’t even know what is going to happen next, how do you write yourself out of that corner? Here are 11 tips to get you writing again.

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3 Tips to Handle Critiques and Rejections (+ How to Benefit From Them)

June 2, 2021

Learn how to handle critiques and rejections with the elegance and decorum of a three-headed dog. I wish I could tell you that the writing…

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Quick Writing Tips (#11 – Don’t Start With Backstory)

April 21, 2021

“Don’t start with backstory! Your readers will lose interest before you’ve even begun,” is arguably the most common feedback I hear for first chapters. And…

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Quick Writing Tips for Writers (#10 – Vary Sentence Length)

April 7, 2021

Quick Writing Tip For Writers: The best writers understand flow. What I mean is, their prose follow a natural cadence that favors both long and…

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Quick Writing Tips For Writers (#9 – Make Analogies Relevant)

March 24, 2021

We’ve all read a story that just feels right. You start scanning the words and something about them flows so well that you feel weightless,…

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3 Questions Writers Need to Ask When They Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Next

March 17, 2021

Ever find yourself stuck in the book you’re writing and not knowing what’s going to happen next? Some call this writer’s block. Others call it…

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Quick Writing Tips (#8 – Watch Your Adjectives)

March 10, 2021

Improve Writing through proper adjective use Thanks for joining us today for Tips to Improve Writing (#8 – Watch your Adjectives). You may be wondering…

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How to Be Specific in Your Writing: 2 Reasons Why + Examples

March 3, 2021

You know how sometimes people write stuff and it just doesn’t really, you know, sit right? There’s just something off, unquantifiable but everpresent? Perhaps it’s…

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Quick Writing Tips (#7 – Tighten Sentences)

February 24, 2021

If you’ve landed here at Vanilla Grass for the first time, this post is part of a bi-weekly series, and this week’s Tips to Improve Writing…

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