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Forget Time Travel—Here’s Why You Should Write About Right Now

Okay, so we all love a little time-travel in our fiction. You crack open a book and BOOM—you’re in 1884, wearing a corset, hiding forbidden love letters in the cracks between your bedroom wall… Or you’re zooming through a dystopian neon wasteland being chased by a malfunctioning AI toaster. You’re haunted by the technical glitch…

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How to Be Funnier on the Page (Even If You’re Dead Inside)

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to be more helpful to the writer community. After much thought (and scratching a bald spot into existence at the top of my head), I finally figured it out: What if… I taught you how to write funny? Using my own work as examples?! Yes, I know how…

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Your Brain Already Knows How to “Show, Don’t Tell”

aka, Your Brain is a Flashback Machine/Writing God You Take For Granted I’m in a lot of Facebook groups for writers. Like, a lot. Possibly too many. So many that my algorithm thinks I am a 2003 Tumblr post with feelings. And what I see constantly are posts like this: “Hey, can I get feedback…

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Write Better Novels: Fix Your Story Structure

Your In-house Editor’s Ultimate Guide to Structuring Your Novel: Learn how to fix your story structure without falling into info-dumping. This guide helps writers build pacing and plot that actually works. ⚠️ Warning: This guide may cause sudden novel breakthroughs, emotional catharsis, and an uncontrollable urge to plot multiple WIPs simultaneously. Hi, I’m Ann—but my…