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'Fix' your fiction by focusing on the joy. Writing exercises, observations, glimmers, and creative curiosities from an award-winning author and editor.
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Wanna write a fucken story? (opens the original)
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Hey, so… here’s the secret of how to write:If you wanna — you gotta. That’s about it. End of post. Except it’s not, because I actually do need you to write the fucken story. I need to write my fucken stories and I spend an inordinate amount of time not writing my fucken stories. I spend even more time encouraging other people to write their fucken stories and we all seem to find this whole thing extremely fucken difficult. So I very much get it. But we can all keep turning in tiny circles or we
The Serendipity of Creativity (opens the original)
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I talk a lot to other writers about how non-linear the creative process is — how it often feels like a gigantic join-the-dot puzzle, slowly building up a series of connections, sometimes before you’ve even figured out what the overall picture will look like. When people say “you couldn’t write it!” about some coincidental coordination of events, in the back of my mind I always think, “actually, exactly what writing is like” — life, stories, free will, determinism, we’re all just drawing lines be
How to Rescue a Stuck Story Draft (opens the original)
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So.The summer seems to be sprinting past and I’m about to head off on a camping trip for a few days of reading, writing, and sitting in the shade. But while I’m gone, I thought I’d punt out a lil’ update of all the writerly things I have coming up soon in case one of them catches your eye...And, to help me segue seamlessly into what is ostensibly a promotional email, let’s kick off with a bit of free editorial advice: </
How to Tell a Tiny Life Story (opens the original)
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8 Ways to Unfuck Your Writing (opens the original)
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UPCOMING WRITING THINGERIES:Unfuck Your Writing — online workshop, 25th JulyIn the Writing Trenches — online writing hangout, 29th JulyA Month of Stories — 4-week short fiction course, starts 3rd Aug<a href="https://www.jogatford.com/has-it-got-le
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