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Book Talk: What I Read in October
Guess who’s read 50 books this year? This writer. Seriously, I opened Goodreads this morning and saw the banner and that’s pretty cool actually. I’d initially set my target for forty-two books, aimed at reading a book a week, but I upgraded…
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How To Optimize Your Blog Posts for Google’s Featured Snippets (or AI Overviews)
Okay, so I’ve been holding out on talking for a while. Why? Because Google’s crazy, and I didn’t want to post a generic blog on how to optimize your blog post. I wanted to have an actual use case that small bloggers…
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On Writing Central Conflicts: A Guide for Writers
In case you haven’t been able to tell from my last blog on writing trauma, I’m back to working on my manuscript. And that’s not all; I’m also working on a number of short stories. It’s probably the weather—the rain, the shorter…
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On Writing Trauma: How to Do Justice to Your Story & Readers
Okay, so this one’s a popular request. I’ve got many emails and comments under my post, On Writing Emotions to cover how to write trauma in fiction, so here we are. The reason this took me a while is because there’s a…
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How to Write an Opening Line That’ll Hook Readers Instantly
I recently reread the opening line of my manuscript and regretted everything. Seriously, it wasn’t bad—it just didn’t hit. Which sucks because my editor thinks it’s pretty good. But—and this is a me problem—I do this thing where I start comparing what…
