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“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”- Laurie Halse Anderson
Welcome to EditElle’s brand-spanking new monthly blog. This is the home of actionable writing tips, tricks, support, prompts, and answered questions. If you have questions you would like answered, email me or send me a message through social media.
The Story Comes First
I don’t know about you, but I get lost easily. My GPS has saved my butt more times that I can count, but it has also led me astray. Honestly, I’m not one of those people that has blindly followed my GPS into a lake, but other people have, and I can easily see how...
Drafts, drafts, so many drafts . . . How does a writer know how many drafts to write for their novel?
“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that spontaneous eloquence seemed like a miracle and that he rewrote every word he ever published, and...
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