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by Word Alive Press
Have you ever experienced creative burnout? Maybe you’re feeling it right now. Once burnout sets in, it can last for weeks, months… even years. F...
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by Word Alive Press
When Alice Munroe won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the CBC played a clip of a past interview with the short story writer, where she recall...
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by Word Alive Press
While this blog was originally published in 2015, it perfectly fits the bill for our special series that unpacks the criteria we consider when eval...
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by Word Alive Press
I meet with aspiring authors all the time—over coffee, over lunch, wherever happens to be convenient—and just let the conversation flow. These co...
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by Word Alive Press
After fifteen years of working with writers, I’ve developed a pretty good sense of the sorts of things they struggle with. Novelists, in particul...
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by Word Alive Press
Have you ever been told by an editor, fellow author, or reader that you overuse the passive voice, or misuse it entirely? It certainly happened t...
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by Word Alive Press
A year or two after the Harry Potter books exploded into the marketplace, you may have noticed that there was a flurry of Harry Potter clones fro...
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by Word Alive Press
My favourite part of writing is the first-drafting stage, when I don’t exactly know where my story is going but I nonetheless get to just go with...
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by Word Alive Press
If you’ve been following the news over the last few weeks, you’re probably aware of the recent controversy swirling around Facebook. Notably, it ...
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by Word Alive Press
Creative types tend to crave peace and quiet. For good reason! Obviously, it’s hard to buckle down and concentrate on writing when your upstairs ...
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by Word Alive Press
All writers know that feeling of exhilaration that comes on upon typing the last period at the end of a book. You get to the last page, the last...
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by Word Alive Press
Most writers don’t just want to write, they want to write well. Sometimes this means writing a sentence, then scrubbing it out and starting again...
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