HeyJaredWrite Well
Weekly lessons, advice, and encouragement for writers from a veteran in the industry. This isn't about MY writing, it's about YOURS. Create a career, not a single book. © 2024-2025, Angela E.Hunt
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Write Well: On setting as character (opens the original)
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Happy Fifth Tuesday!September has five Tuesdays this year, which means today you get a freebie. No 1,200-word lesson with homework. Just a conversation about something I’ve been thinking about for years: the way a place can walk onto the page and refuse to leave.I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read a book and thought, “I’d love to live in that place.” But more on that later. First, the usual.Word of the Week: terroir (TER-wah)—the character a place imparts to what it produces.French, from t
Write Well: The fine art of not naming emotions (opens the original)
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WORD OF THE WEEKvisceral (adjective) | VIS-er-uhlFrom the Latin viscera, meaning the internal organs — the soft, vital parts of the body. The word entered English in the late sixteenth century to mean “of the viscera,” and shifted by the early twentieth century to mean what we mean now: felt deeply in the body, instinctive, gut-level.The root family is small but pointed. Viscera itself we still use. Eviscerate — to remove the viscera, literally to gut — comes from the same root and carries the v
Write Well: On the nonfiction how-to article or book (opens the original)
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WORD OF THE WEEKexpert (noun, adjective) | EK-spurt (noun) / ek-SPURT (adjective)From the Latin expertus, “tried, proved, known by experience”—the past participle of experiri, “to try, to test.” That verb traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root *per-, meaning “to try, to risk.”That root is the gift. Expert doesn’t come from a word meaning “to know.” It comes from a word meaning to try, and to risk something in the trying. The expert isn’
Write Well: On how a novel breathes (opens the original)
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Word of the Week: sequelsequel (SEE-kwul)—noun. Something that follows; a continuation; specifically in fiction, the reaction-and-decision beat that follows a scene of conflict.From the Latin sequela, that which follows, from sequi, to follow. The sequ- root is everywhere in English once you start looking. Consequence—what follows with. Subsequent—what follows under or after. Sequence—a following-along of things in order. Pursue and prosecute and
Write Well: August 2026 Compilation (opens the original)
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The workshop, without the suitcaseFriends,The older I get, the more I want you to have the workshop, not just a pep talk.For years I taught a two-day intensive called Write and Publish a Great Book. People flew in, filled a workbook, and went home with a plan. I recorded it.Start with a free lesson: https://write-and-publish-a-great-book.thinkific.com/pages/writing-lessons-from-the-frontThe full course is nine hours, 34 lessons, plus worksheets for the manuscript on your desk. Plot, c
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