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The pros in the mystery/crime genre are all a little wary these days, and for good reason: The true identity of today’s mystery is a bit of a mystery, slip-sliding toward thrillerdom while fighting to maintain its puzzle-solving satisfactions. “Beyond the obvious franchise authors whose books become automatic bestsellers, because the bookstores order their next works by the hundreds of thousands of copies, we’re all making our best informed guesses,” says Managing Partner Scott Andrew Mendel of the Mendel Media Group. “Mainly, we guess by looking at demographic trends and stories in the daily news.

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Are “since” and “because” interchangeable or is there a difference between them? This quick explanation will help you put this hot-button issue to rest once and for all. Read more

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Writer's Digest Questions and Quandaries

'If', by Rudyard Kipling

This post is a part of an ongoing series entitled MIP (Man In Progress) . After my 25th Birthday I decided to improve three aspects of my life ( my writing career was one of them) .

{Courage 2 Create}

I’m still studying Shirley Jackson, and if you don’t know why you can easily find out . I spent yesterday doing a scene-by-scene analysis of Chapters 5 and 6 of The Haunting of Hill House that turned into line-by-line—that’s how fast she switches gears in her most profound passages!—and at some indefinite point degenerated into re-reading for the sheer pleasure of it.

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The Creative Penn

Writers are a funny bunch and the split between plotters and pantsers seems to be an arbitrary one in my mind. In this guest post, Nick Thacker explores why mixing planning with “pantsing” is probably the best route to go for writing fiction. It’s certainly the way I write.

Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors

The third act is the moment we’ve all been waiting for—readers, writers, and characters alike. This final section of the story is the point.

A couple of weeks ago, I found a new blog.

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My next Write for Magazines e-course starts on Monday, April 9 — and I’m running a contest to boost signups while giving a big Thank You to my students! First, the details: Write for Magazines is an 8-week e-course that’s helped students break into magazines like Spirituality & Health, Woman’s Day, Pizza Today, Washington Parent, …… Click here to keep reading…

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It’s good to find an edge. Something extracted from the vast wealth of storytelling tips, techniques, principles and strategies already on your radar.