This is part one in a 6-part, totally free master class on everything you need to know to write "your best book now," with apologies to Joel Osteen and Thomas Nelson. Part 1: The manuscript You have 6 jobs before your manuscript is ready for professional editing, and then submission to an editor. Job #1: Start by reading (preferably memorizing) The Elements of Style
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Why does the world need you? I had a thought recently that seemed out of nowhere. It's not the kind of thing I normally come up with. But it was sitting there when I went to write at my usual time, and it sounded like something I've heard for a long time but just never picked it up to look
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I recently tried to explain to a writer the work of writing true. It's an important distinction. So much writing is not. Writing true is about more than writing what's factually true. Being faithful to the facts is fine and good, but true writers must have a higher truth as their priority. True writing is something greater, something more real
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I came upon a strange little connection last night while I was playing piano that I never thought of before. Something of a synthesizing metaphor that may help explain what learning to see beauty really requires. Or at least, what it's required for me. Are these fleeting thoughts worth grabbing and exploring? I was playing music, realizing that my old
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