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Read what you do not like to write

A tip about how elves change their reading to change their writing

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Better ideas come from working on the first idea…

A tip about how one story idea leads to the next

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Details

A tip about decorating your writing with details

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A tip about turning toward The End before your story gets too big

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See pictures when you write

A tip about the pictures that words (yes, words) create

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Trained fingers to the rescue!

A tip about touch typing—which helps to capture ideas and make stories more readable

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Write the whole story

A tip about writing a story just the way you would tell it out loud

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Saving pieces of stories

A tip about squirreling away pieces of stories

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Learning from each story

A tip about seeing stories as places to learn (the first in a series of tips that come from the writing of “The Waking Prince”)

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An invented word, XX

A tip about filling frustrating holes with a temporary word

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