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Highlight to Success
[by Billi Joy Carson, Senior Editor/ Editing Addict] Editor Tip: Highlight to Success Every writer—no matter how strong a wordsmith—has at least one crutch word. To the author, the words remain hidden,...
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Work at the Language
“Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to...
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Audience-Shmaudience—Write What YOU Love
[by Billi Joy Carson, Senior Editor/ Editing Addict] Editor Tip: Write What YOU Love It’s true that writers need to write to an audience. But the process is not a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey....
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A Writer’s Soul
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf Filed under: Hooked On Quotes
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How to Submit Poems for Publication
Guest Blog by Dr. Katie Manning Every time I teach Creative Writing: Poetry to college students, I spend some time going over how to submit poems for publication, and then I require them to send out...
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What Your Editor Needs From You
[by Billi Joy Carson, Senior Editor/ Editing Addict] Editor Tip: What Your Editor Needs From You Respect Your editor is going to spend weeks pouring over your manuscript. She (or he) is going to eat,...
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Book Launch: Marie H. Curran
Observant Observings “Observant Observings is Marie Hanna Curran’s first poetry collection. It’s a book of noticing, observing behavior, questioning routine and redefining the banal. Each poem...
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Editor, Not Opinionator-Terminator
[by Billi Joy Carson, Senior Editor/ Editing Addict] Editor Tip: Make Sure Your Editor Is Just That—an Editor Recently, an author contacted me about another editor she was using, and the practices,...
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Portrait of a Poetry Myth
#EAQuote “Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Filed under: Hooked On Quotes
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Poetic Beauty
#EAQuote “Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.” — Edgar Allan PoeFiled under: Hooked On Quotes
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