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When the pen is mightier than the keyboard

On February 4, 2015 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

With some very famous exceptions (most of which are writers in their eighties and nineties), most writers today write with a keyboard and not a pen. We have so much in the way of technology to help us that there is little need to pick up a pen, except perhaps to annotate corrections on a …

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There’s no such thing as writer’s block

On December 9, 2013December 9, 2013 By JohnIn For newbie authors4 Comments

That’s what I thought until a young writer contacted me recently asking for ideas of how to get around writer’s block.  She had had some success as a writer and was finding it hard to get started again.  That very success seemed to be the cause of her anxiety, and that was holding her back …

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