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Writing Workshop Holiday Gift Cards
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Writing Workshop Holiday Gift Cards

If you would like to give a writing workshop or lecture from MyStoryDoctor.com to a loved one, email David at dwolvert@xmission.com for more information on

Powerful Openings

Is your opening powerful? If not, why not? I’ve been judging a huge writing contest this week, and had literally a couple hundred stories that

Writing a Perfect Story, Part 9 

I’ve been working on a series of articles on what constitutes a perfect story, and so far I’ve concentrated on some of the qualities that

Burnout saved me from my writer self
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How Burnout Made me a Better Author

Burnout. Few words spark such dread among writers. Avoiding it, surviving it, and recovering from it are each the focus of many articles, blogs, podcasts, books, and conference classes. Still, most of us have or will find ourselves grappling with it. This struggle resembles a hiker who has fallen off an unforeseen cliff and now clings to the sheer rockface with desperate, failing fingers, unable to pull themselves up.

Importance of setting in a book
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The Importance of Setting

Why is it important? Mary Buckham, USA Today Bestselling author recently presented WRITING ACTIVE SETTING for David Farland’s mentoring group, Apex-Writers. It is an important

Writing

Why Editors Reject Your Story?

As many of you know, I judge stories for the Writers of the Future contest. Today I want to talk about those stories that get

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How to Use Dialog Tags Terribly

Dialog tags help the reader know who is speaking the dialog. Recently, I shared how you could write bad dialog in your stories. The truth