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Achieve Perfect Pacing

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On Famous Walkers, or Why You Should Pace Around While Writing

3 Project Management Principles to Pace Yourself Through Your Next Writing Conference

Short-Story Dispensers Bring Literature to the Masses

Poetic asides • No matter what you write, a bit of poetic license can be a valuable asset to any writer’s arsenal.

Write It Out • Writing prompts to boost your creativity.

How to Pace Your Marathon Race of Self-Publishing

Keeping Media Momentum Beyond the Book Launch

Fearless Fragments

Using Dialogue in Microfiction

Achieve Perfect Pacing

Ericka Tiffany Phillips • STEPHANIE TADE AGENCY

BREAKINGIN • Debut authors: How they did it, what they learned, and why you can do it, too.

If You’re Bored, They’re Bored • Five Zero-Draft tricks to ensure tight pacing.

When to Cut, When to Write • Six secrets to writing scenes of perfect length.

The Pause Is the Point • How to use stillness to create momentum in your fiction.

Pacing Your Writing Process • Keep creative momentum when you have little time to write.

Pacing Your Writing Career • When the snail’s pace of publishing gets you down, look to the parts of your writing career you can control.

Put Yourself in Charge of Your Own Story • Julie Ann Sipos, grand-prize winner of the 33rd annual WD Self-Published Book Awards, on how her career in Hollywood influences her writing style and her business strategy as an indie author.

Lauren Groff • The three-time National Book Award finalist discusses her new short story collection, Brawler, and the necessity of failure in writing.

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ENTERYOURSTORY

What Agents Actually Want to See in Your Goals • Set goals that signal professionalism and the kind of author agents want to work with.

Pacing in Nonfiction • It’s all about story.

6 Paying Literary Publications

Use Story Questions to Get Your Story Off to a Compelling Start

Deities

Merging Memory With Imagination • Author Rin-rin Yu’s debut middle-grade novel, Goodbye, French Fry, represents a combination of her true childhood experiences and the universal experience of growing into yourself.

Once and Future Princesses

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