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Weeknotes - S02E44 - More Non-Fiction Fuel in the Fire

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Still no actual fiction writing again this week - the fiction crew are definitely on shore leave at the moment, leaving the nonfiction crew to stoke the boilers on their own.

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You Should Always Follow the Guidelines - Shouldn't You?

One of the most important pieces of advice for writers submitting their work for publication is - read the guidelines really carefully and follow them to the letter. It may seem petty and unfair to be penalised for using the wrong font or being a few words outside the word limit. But the quickest way to get rejected is to fail to follow the guidelines, as this gives the editor a very easy way to whittle down what might be an impractically large submission pile.

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Weeknotes - S02E43 - A Change Is As Good As A Rest?

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The fiction crew are still on shore leave, it seems, but the non-fiction crew are picking up the slack.

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Weeknotes - S02E42 - From No Days to All The Days!

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After nothing at all last week, I worked on writing projects to at least some degree every day this week. Not much progress on the fiction front, but lots of nonfiction stuff, some cogitation on fiction stuff, and plenty of sending my darlings out into the world to be judged.

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Writing the Other

I recently read Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, which is designed to help writers approach and navigate the potential pitfalls of writing characters who are very different from themselves. I would highly recommend reading this book to all writers, but below is a distillation of the most important lessons I learned from it.

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Weeknotes - S02E41 - Very Little To See Here

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Very little going on this week.

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