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Plot Your Novel

You know what you want to tell the world. Now, how do you get them to listen?

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Letters to the Dead

How my Dear Friend Steve Paget (May He Rest in Peace) Rescued Me From the Precipice of Extroversion and Watches Over Me Today

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What Happens If We Stop Asking Why?

The simple, but not easy, secret to compelling character motivation.

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How to Write a Procedure

Writing a procedure is difficult. Your job as a technical writer is to codify hundreds of pages of legislation, guidance documents, best practices, incident findings, technical knowledge, and compa…

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Put a Body in the Trunk

At the beginning, your character just has to be motivated

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Don’t Forget the Real People

Charlotte Brontë had this one right.

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Description Won’t Get You There

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

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There is No Story Without Irony

What does it mean when we say that a good story needs an ironic premise?

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