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In June of this year, I wrote a blog post here at Skolion on how anxiety affects me as a reader. But the fact that I’m a writer is what ...
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Love it or hate it, it’s that time of the year again: the dreaded or beloved National Novel Writing Month. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a community writing event wherein ...
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I almost quit grad school my first week in. I’d applied to the low-residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program and was excited to learn more of the craft of ...
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I’ve always been an anxious person, but it was only in 2020 that I learned about Anxiety with a capital “A”. I’d lost the dog of my heart after a ...
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We all know That Author – the one who appears to be tireless, who brags about hitting 3k to 5k (if not more) words a day on their manuscript. Who ...
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When I first started writing as a teenager, I never thought anyone would ever read any of my stories. The first ones were fanfic because I didn’t know how to ...
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Whether you’re a writing veteran with dozens of published works or brand new and still wrapping your head around what ‘show, don’t tell’ really means, there is always more to ...
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The writer's notebook is akin to the artist's sketchpad. We can think of them as an archive of ideas, a place to think, and a record of how our work ...
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So, I’ve been writing a while now – longer than I’d like to admit– and in that time I’ve had occasion to notice (and occasionally experience) the love-hate relationship that ...
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Here’s a topic that keeps coming up in my writing circles: A friend has asked you to read their book. They want some writing feedback. You agree, because, why wouldn’t ...
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