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✨How Do You Know If Your Story Idea is Worth Pursuing? Jennifer Trevelyan Has a One-Question Test for That✨
✨How You Fail by Not Trying; Why You Should Fake It Till You Make It; & Unconventional Writing Advice...✨
✨How to Write Messy, Complicated Characters That Readers Will Root for; & Win a Books With Hooks Critique✨
✨Torturing Your Characters; Finding Your Voice; A Cheat Sheet for Mourning or Revising a Project; Using Cinematic Techniques for Scene Work…
✨Bonus Character Development Questionnaire; Why You Shouldn't be Networking; Fun Ways to Get Your Book Noticed; & Creating Writing Time✨
✨Writing Your Book One "Tile" at a Time; Learning When to Say "No" (Even in Response to a "Yes!"); and, Carly & CeCe's Latest Query…
✨To MFA or Not to MFA; How Conflict Drives Narratives; & The Countdown to Deep Dive!✨
Plus the perfect gift for all the writers in your life!
✨How You Fail by Not Trying; Why You Should Fake It Till You Make It; & Unconventional Writing Advice...✨
Also, CeCe has an awesome 4-day course coming up! And we have the perfect gift for the writers in your life.
✨Prologue Woes; The Perfect Gift for the Writer in Your Life; Plus, a Valentine Wearing a Bishop’s Red Socks; & Throwing Away the Goose✨
We said what we said...
✨The Best Part About Being Unagented; Trad vs Indie Publishing; Worldbuilding for Contemporary Rom-Coms with Magical Elements; & Writing…
Plus, CeCe's dropping a new course!
✨It's Deep Dive Early Bird Registration Day! Also, Vulnerability and Voice; & Having an Agent Approach You✨
Plus, you'll have an opportunity to win your Deep Dive registration fee back! Squeal!!!!!!!!!
✨Query Critiques Inside! Plus, Going from Almost Quitting to Writing Your Best Book; Writing Trauma (Without Re-Traumatizing Yourself); & A…
Plus, a huge thank you for all the Shooting the Shit love!
✨Even More Exciting Deep Dive Reveals & Protecting the Spark that Got You Started✨
Plus, insights from this week's Books with Hooks!
✨Torturing Your Characters; Finding Your Voice; A Cheat Sheet for Mourning or Revising a Project; Using Cinematic Techniques for Scene Work…
And don't forget to sign up for a reminder for the Deep Dive Virtual Retreat early bird registration!
✨Exciting Deep Dive Reveals; How to Turn 800 Rejections into a Resounding "Yes!"; & the Million Dollar Question: To Mourn or Revise?✨
It's raining curiosity seeds! Hallelujah!
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
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