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Tips on: secrets of writing

Idea drawers and baskets

A tip about how elves gather story ideas and save them in their hats

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Enjoy your OWN stories

A tip about reading your own stories for pure pleasure

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Regularly search for all of the improvements

A tip about carefully tracking ALL of your accomplishments

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You are not alone when you write

A tip about keeping the company of characters as you write

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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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Many kinds of writing voices

A tip about noticing our best voice

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What you never expected to hear about a writing prompt

A tip about choosing to write on subjects we know

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Or… turn yourself into a field mouse and then build the snowman…

A tip about how to make an ordinary writing prompt into something else

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The voices you get for free

A tip about discovering your own best writing voice

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