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10 Ways to Help Authors

10 Ways to Help Authors

Writers hate asking, but they need our help. For many of them, book deals are hard to get, advances are small, publicity budgets are meager, and a writer’s publishing future depends mostly on the love they get from their readers. I’ve come up with some ways to help authors, even if those authors already wrote…

A Brief Defense of Using a Thesaurus (in which I disagree with Stephen King)
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A Brief Defense of Using a Thesaurus (in which I disagree with Stephen King)

You may not even know that the humble thesaurus comes under attack, but it does. The topic arose this week when a writer tweeted a question asking other writers how they feel about using a thesaurus. Almost everyone who responded said they were down with them and why. But someone reminded me who it was…