‘Show, don’t tell’ must be one of the – if not the – most used pieces of writerly advice. But like with so many phrases, it’s often used without further explanation, which inevitably leads to confusion, which inevitably leads to despair (or, at least, it does in my case).
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Ernest Hemingway famously said “the only kind of writing is rewriting.” For many of us, it took a while for that to really sink in. Most writers spend years punishing themselves for their half baked,
To most, November 1st is merely the start of a new month. One containing Thanksgiving and the onslaught of the holiday season. For writers, it begins the daunting event known as NaNoWriMo.
Every writer was a reader first. Indeed, a love of reading is usually the reason people start writing. Due to this, a universally accepted piece of writing advice is to identify what you enjoy reading