writing advice Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/writing-advice/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:35:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 My Five Favorite Pieces of Writing Advice http://booksbywomen.org/five-favorite-pieces-writing-advice/ http://booksbywomen.org/five-favorite-pieces-writing-advice/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:00:59 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11201 Since graduating college, I’ve been a magazine journalist. The first half of my career I spent on staff as an editor at various women’s magazines, the second half as a freelance writer. I have loads of advice to share for the newly graduated who have the same dream I did — to see your name […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/writing-advice-past-tense-present-tense/feed/ 35 10260 You’re a Writer. Now Act Like One! http://booksbywomen.org/youre-writer-now-act-like-one-by-mm-finc/ http://booksbywomen.org/youre-writer-now-act-like-one-by-mm-finc/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:00:38 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9300 My entire life had been in a single large city.  I loved the important hustle of the daytime and the somewhat dangerous excitement of the night. Art and fabulous food fed my deeper cravings. Still, I always felt that my forever life was waiting for me somewhere drastically different.  On impulse, I moved to San Diego, […]

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