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    5 Questions

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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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    Self-Publishing

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    Craft and Criticism

    What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

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    Self-Reflection

    On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

    By Elizabeth Ames  September 5, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Walter Mosley on Discovering Who Your Book’s Characters Really Are

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    Grammar

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    New in Nonfiction

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    Criticism

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    Punctuation

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    Writing Advice

    Bob Eckstein Draws His Way Through the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

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    Language

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    By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
    Tarot

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    Drafts

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    By Diane Cook  August 23, 2019
    On Poetry

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    By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  August 13, 2019
    Grammar

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    Writing Advice

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    By Jason Allen  August 9, 2019
    Historical Fiction

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    Climate Change

    Romanticizing Mount Everest Misses the Real Story

    By Adam Popescu  August 9, 2019
    Writing Advice

    “The Greatest Menace to the Writer is the Reader” and Other Advice from Shirley Jackson

    By Emily Temple  August 8, 2019
    Writing Real People

    The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

    By Brock Clarke  August 8, 2019
    Advice

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    By Emily Temple  August 6, 2019
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