"When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
"The first draft of a book-even a long one-should take no more than three months, the length of a season."
"You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself."
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Writing Tips and Prompts
Non-FictionIt is often said that writing is a skill that is never truly mastered. This is a fact. We learn and grow each and every day in our writing. Maybe it is a tip we read, a word we learned, a video we saw, or just simply a critique we received that h...