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It’s About Time: A Writer’s Choice to Write Historical Fiction
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It’s About Time: A Writer’s Choice to Write Historical Fiction

[This article is reposted with permission from author Joan Fernandez. Joan’s debut novel, Saving Vincent, A Novel of Jo van Gogh, will publish on April 15, 2025 with She Writes Press and is based on a true story. In the early twentieth century, a timid widow—and sister-in-law of the famed painter—Jo van Gogh takes on…

Word Count Junkie
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Word Count Junkie

Lots of people who are writing books do not set daily word count targets. There are various reasons for this—they feel stifled by it, they need to let their writing go where it goes (or not), they want to feel okay whether they write many words or few, or they just do not need it….

In Which Herman Melville Seeks Critique in an Internet Forum
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In Which Herman Melville Seeks Critique in an Internet Forum

There’s an online writing activity I like about as much as having someone else floss my teeth—posting the first line of a story in internet forums to receive critique from whoever’s willing to help. This practice is common on Reddit; I’ve also seen these threads in Facebook groups that are otherwise valuable places for writers…