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Boost Your Writing Career with Short Stories – Here’s How

by MKMarketing | May 17, 2013 | Best Writer Tips, For the love of writing, Your highest potential

Writing a novel is time-consuming, let’s agree? At no other period in my ten years of professional writing have I been so down-in-the-trenches with one project, (My work-in-progress, RADIO HEAD). I love it, it’s my dream come true. but I’ll admit...

Kill Writer’s Block Now: The Fast Track to Creativity Starts Here

by MKMarketing | Apr 24, 2013 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Your highest potential

Staring at a blank page? No me, my friend; I’m already off and writing this blog post, charmed by the prolific Charles Bukowski, “Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.” (The Last Night of the Earth Poems) Garnering the...

Fiction Writing: Building Conflict to Discover What YOU Know

by MKMarketing | Apr 12, 2013 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing

No plan, no map can ever foretell the revelation to be revealed on any journey. A committed outliner, every fiction story I’ve ever written has been prepared with (and in some cases, pre-empted by) a laboriously detailed outline spanning nearly 10,000 words. And yet,...
4 Fun Tips for Inspiring Children to Read & Write Stories

4 Fun Tips for Inspiring Children to Read & Write Stories

by MKMarketing | Nov 13, 2012 | Best Writer Tips, For the love of writing

Words are the foundation of any great story. Whether eloquent, blunt, allusive or rudimentary, words are the playthings of those new to the alphabet and MFA students alike. I have two children, ages 5 and 7; both alphabet aficionados and no strangers to playthings....

What Was Your Childhood Dream? Dare to Let Go And Grow

by MKMarketing | Sep 20, 2012 | For the love of writing, Short stories, Your highest potential

Three decades stand between me and a little wish I’d had a child. For most little girls, ballet tutus hold an inescapable allure, swishing like a soft summer breeze over long grass, impossibly layered mille-feuille, delicate and delicious. I wanted one. And the...

A writer’s manifesto for 2012. Read this and get to work

by MKMarketing | Jan 4, 2012 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts

Sometimes I like to pretend I’m writing “to” novelist Chuck Wendig. It helps me cut the crap when self-censorship creeps in. I love Wendig’s writing voice, and I just feel freer to speak my mind on the page when I’m in his literary...
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