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Welcome back to Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Part 3: The Hot Mess Never Ends Edition. This is the post where we will address your descript...

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As part of the Edinburgh version of Whisper Walk from the "AFOOT" series, I give you one of the monologues/short stories I have c...

Friends, I humbly share with you all: I made a thing.  Well. I RE-made a thing.  And what an honor it is.    Inspired by the giants of Alan ...

Aspiring writer, we need to talk. Not The Talk. Not the birds and bees—the one where I lovingly talk in all caps into your face about the w...

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