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Category Archives: Writing
Secret Boards Make Pinterest More Enticing to Writers
Now that Pinterest has added a secret boards feature, it seems like a much more useful research tool for writers. Continue reading
Posted in Book Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Writing
Tagged pinterest, secret boards, writing research
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How do your characters handle confrontation?
I think it’s valuable, and rather self-enlightening, to take a step back from our writing occasionally and examine how our characters handle confrontation. Continue reading
Writing for Free: When Is It Worth It?
Certain professions lend themselves to “freebies” more than others. So when is it smart to give away your writing for free, and when is it not a good idea? Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing
Tagged articles, blogging, freelance writing, writing for free, writing for money, Writing Links
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7 Tips for Better Proofreading
Proofreading is an important element of writing that never gets any credit. It’s never noticed when done properly, but when you don’t do it well, it can be the difference between a second read and getting tossed immediately out of the slush pile. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged proofreading
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Writing Exercise: Make Your Characters Take a Stand
If you write dramas, mysteries, or anything that requires complex human interaction, chances are, you are going to have to write about a disagreement. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged writing exercise
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How I Start a New Writing Project
Kelly shares some of the ways she goes about starting on a new, long-term writing project. Continue reading
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What Would You Be If You Were Not a Writer?
If you could change your writing career to something else, no matter what the obstacles, what would you change it to? Continue reading
Geronimo Stilton and the Art of Writing the Vacation Story
It’s the imperfect vacations and travels that are often memorable—and most often written about. Continue reading
Posted in Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
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Finding Writing Time: Must We Write Every Day?
It’s not easy for me to justify my fiction writing time. I know that writing a novel likely won’t keep the lights on or pay my kids’ college tuition. Continue reading
Writing History, Great and Small
Though most people are not true history buffs, many do love the history of particular things. If you find an interesting way to present your topic, you may be able to work a book proposal right into a history publisher’s heart. Continue reading
Posted in Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged history, history writing, nonfiction proposal
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Writing Exercise: Playing with Time, Mad Men Style
As a writer, if you are going to play with chronological order in a story, you must have a darn good reason for doing it, and you have to keep it all straight—in your own head and everyone else’s. Continue reading
Posted in Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing Exercises
Tagged chronological order, mad men, storytelling, time, time skips, writing exercise
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You Finished Your Freelance Writing Project—What Now?
It’s great not to have that freelance writing deadline breathing down your neck, but finishing a big writing assignment can be scary. Continue reading
What Makes for a Good Writing Class?
You have to do your homework to make sure you get the experience you want from a writing class. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged writing class, writing teacher
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The “Pee-Pee Feeling” in Writing: Making Readers Squirm
It’s that feeling you get when you encounter something that makes you so embarrassed, or grossed out, or uncomfortable, or horrified, that you really just want to leave the room. Continue reading
May Writer of the Month: Daniel Diehl
Daniel Diehl is the first Pubmission writer to receive two 4-star Editor Ratings on two different submissions. Continue reading
Writing Home
They say to write what you know, so write a short story about your childhood home or hometown, even if you don’t live there anymore. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged home, hometown, writing home
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Writing Dystopian Fiction: Rollerball Is The Hunger Games
There has been plenty of commentary about how The Hunger Games, the latest teen-focused dystopian book and film craze, isn’t necessarily a new idea, just a very good version of an old idea, and Rollerball is pretty solid proof. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged dystopian, dystopian fiction, Rollerball, The Hunger Games, writing exercise
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Submissions 101: Keep the Kids out of Your Author Bio
Acquisitions editors don’t care how many kids you have. So why would you include this info in your submission’s author bio? Continue reading
Posted in Submissions 101, Writing
Tagged acquisitions, author, author bio, publish, submissions
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7 Dos and Don’ts for Submitting Your Writing
Some pointers for writers to keep in mind for their manuscript submissions. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Submissions 101, Writing
Tagged publishers, submission, submissions, Writing Links
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Friday Writing Exercise: Meet Mary Sue
Don’t be afraid to make your characters unattractive, or nasty at times, or less than perfect, or very different from you. What you are after is not perfection. What you are after is realism, complexity, motivation, believability. Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Kelly Gunzenhauser, Writing, Writing Exercises
Tagged characters, comic con, fandom, mary sue, mary sue litmus test, Writing Links
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