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the craft. your biggest writing accomplishment.
And you'd be surprised by the answer.
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What Will it Take to Finish?
Is this the year that you finally stop saying, next year?
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the craft. letting the scene breathe.
If I had to pinpoint one of the major things that happens in revision from early to later drafts for me, it would often be expanding.
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the craft. what kind of writing career do you want?
Recently, in a drive down to Long Beach with a fellow writer, she shared an important question that a person in book public relations asked her, “What…
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A Writer's Responsibility
What do established writers owe the greater writing community?
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the craft. writing the end.
Your closing is as important as the opening.
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PTW's Writerly Gift Guide 2025
For the word nerds in your life.
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the craft. the goal is to finish.
Recently, I came across an interview with Kevin Hart on Steven Bartlett’s podcast, The Diary of a CEO, and I was reminded of the importance of…
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the craft. throughlines between fiction and nonfiction.
Naturally, we focus quite a bit on fiction in this weekly newsletter since, I (Ashley) am the brainchild behind the craft topics, and I am in my fiction…
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Permission to Write is a community for Black writers. We share monthly book recommendations, writing opportunities, and prompts, plus a weekly paid newsletter diving deep into the craft of writing.
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