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Ten Original Prompts to Get You Writing
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Ten Original Prompts to Get You Writing

As a rule of thumb, if you struggle with writer’s block, the worst possible solution is to stop writing and wait for inspiration. The only way to overcome writer’s block is to ignore it and push through. However, if you truly have no idea how to press on in a project, it can be really helpful to take a break from that project and write something totally different as a sort of “palate cleanser.”

With that in mind, here are five wildly different prompts to help you get writing again.

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Random Tips to Write With More Confidence and Authority
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Random Tips to Write With More Confidence and Authority

When I lost my job and my book deal along with it, it was a huge blow to my confidence, and it greatly exacerbated my case of imposter syndrome. Part of the reason I began this blog in the first place was to share what I do know about writing, however little it may be, and give other writers and editors the tools they need to stop feeling like a fraud.

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Five Questions to Guide Your Worldbuilding Process
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Five Questions to Guide Your Worldbuilding Process

Not all fiction is set in a fantastical world, distant planet, or alternate timeline, but all fiction requires some level of worldbuilding. Even a novel written to be a realistic drama set in a real, modern-day city needs internal consistency to ensure the parts that are fiction don’t clash with the parts that are not.

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