It’s that time of year again. My ten-year blogiversary is coming up on July 12th. Don’t miss this special celebration — with prizes for you!

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10th Annual Blogiversary Contest — Prize: Me! Wait…er, What?

If the usual beta-reading exchange doesn’t work for us, would a professional professional beta reader be good? What should we look for?

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Professional Beta Readers: What to Expect — Guest: CeCe Downs

Most writers help each other, but it’s also nice to have a closer group of writing friends that we can reach out to. How can we build our group of friends?

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How Can We Build Our Writing Community?

It’s that time of year again. My nine-year blogiversary is coming up on July 12th. And I’m once again amazed by the fact that I’ve been writing this blog for nine years. How can something feel like yesterday and forever at the same time?

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9th Annual Blogiversary Contest — Prize: Me! Wait…er, What?

It’s that time of year again. My eight-year blogiversary is coming up on July 12th. And I’m once again amazed by the fact that I’ve been writing this blog for eight years. How can something feel like yesterday and forever at the same time?

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8th Annual Blogiversary Contest — Prize: Me! Wait…er, What?

What makes writing “good” takes more than just learning writing craft. That gap between tangible skills and enjoyable stories means it’s always difficult to define what makes for good writing—especially our own.

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Recognizing Quality Writing: Can We Tell If We’re Any Good?

All of us start on the writing path from different places, but somewhere along our path, we realized an online writing community existed. The #cockygate issue reiterated for me just how important that community is for our career.

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Why We All Need a Writing Community

No matter our publishing path, our work always needs to go through an editing process, but when are we ready for editing? How will we know? If we start too soon, we’re likely to struggle and waste time and/or money.

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Editing Processes: How Do We Improve?