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Polishing Your Prose: Tips on Grammar, Article & Story Structure, and Self-Editing
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- Building Your Best Piece
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Facing the First Draft - Moira Allen
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Five Fatal Flaws that Can Lead to Rejection - Moira Allen
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How to Craft a Great Article, Part I: Structure, Focus, Unity and Flow - Dawn Copeman
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How to Craft a Great Article, Part II: Hooks, Leads, and Endings - Dawn Copeman
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How to "Show Don't Tell" - Dawn Copeman
- Rules vs. Tools - Moira Allen
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When "First Person" Is the Last Person You Need - Moira Allen
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Writing for (Not by) the Ear - Donnell King
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Writing for the General Public: It's Not as Easy as it Sounds - Mary J. Breen
- Outlines
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The Outline Demystified - Moira Allen
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To Outline or Not to Outline - Tim Hallinan
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Five Tips to Writing Great Subheads - Kristina Springer
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Why Do I Need an Outline? - Cheryl Sloan Wray
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Your Story Outline: What It's All About - Rekha Ambardar
- Choosing Great Titles
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Choosing the Right Name for Your Story - John Floyd
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Titles for Your Texts
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Titles Sell Books! - Judy Cullins
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What Every Writer Needs to Know About Article Titles - Julie K. Cohen
- Grammar Tips & Pitfalls
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Avoiding Comma Confusion - Moira Allen
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Connect with Conjunctions - Victoria Grossack
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Grammar Gaffes and How to Avoid Them - Marg Gilks
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Grammar Griping - Victoria Grossack
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Grammar Groping - Victoria Grossack
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Grammar Matters! - Moira Allen
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Handling Gerunds and Their Relatives - Dawn Copeman
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Kill the Adverbs! - Kathleen Ewing
- Mixing and Matching Metaphors - Victoria Grossack
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My Sister, Eileen... or My Sister Eileen? Understanding the Apposite Phrase - Moira Allen
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Parsing Paragraphs - Victoria Grossack
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Pondering Personal Pronouns - Victoria Grossack
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Punctuating Dialogue - Marg Gilks
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Tense Matters: Verbs in the Past, Present, and Future - Victoria Grossack
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HUMOR: How to Write Really Bad Fiction and Enjoy the Benefits of Rapid Rejection - Hank Quense
- Cutting Unnecessary Words
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Counting the Words - Victoria Grossack
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Fewer Words Mean Bigger Bucks - Shaunna Privratsky
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Less is More: 15 Quick, Clever and Clean Tricks to Reduce Manuscript Word Count - Devyani Borade
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Sensible, Sensitive Sentences - Victoria Grossack
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Targeting Enemy Words - Sandra Miller
- The Final Polish: Self-Editing and Proofreading
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The ABCs of Writing for Kids: Active, Brief, and Cut Cut Cut - Eugie Foster
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Becoming Your Own Editor - Moira Allen
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Death by Revision - Kristin Camiolo
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Editing [Fiction] for Consistency - Victoria Grossack
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Editing Secrets to Make Your [Children's Writing] Shine - Laura Backes
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Grammar Matters! - Moira Allen (editorial)
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What a Good Editor Can Do For You - Patricia Fry
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Why You Can't Rely on Your Spellchecker - Jan K. the Proofer
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Becoming a successful writer isn't just about mastering great writing skills. It's also about overcoming the challenges and obstacles of the writing life: Rejection, fear of failure, lack of time, writer's block, the "Am I Really a Writer?" syndrome, and, of course, friends and family who just don't get it.
Fortunately, you're not alone. We've all been there. So here's a handy "survival guide" that will bring you inspiration, motivation, support and good old-fashioned advice to help you through the tough times. Don't let those writing gremlins keep you from achieving your dreams!
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