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Tips on: not tearing things up!

It is hard

A tip about knowing the truth before we start

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Regularly search for all of the improvements

A tip about carefully tracking ALL of your accomplishments

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When you are writing, consider 15 minutes a long time

A tip about “story time” (where 15 minutes is a long time)

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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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How do I find what I need to change?

A tip about four specific ways to improve a story

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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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Moving story pieces

A tip about strengthening a story by reordering the story

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The imagination muscle

A tip about building a rippling “imagination muscle”

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Accidents welcome

A tip about the good fortune in accidents

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When you dislike what you wrote, Chapter I

A tip about the different signals a writer may hear as he works on a story

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