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Easy to edit but it’s a killer in your writing: Filtering

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Originally posted to Instagram on July 11, 2021. Edits for clarity and grammar have been made. What is filtering? Filtering is when you add unnecessary words to your document explicitly telling the reader what the character sees, hears, feels, and thinks. It’s the most obvious in first person POV, but it occurs in third person […]

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Avoiding Writing Burnout

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As we near the end of November, many of you will be feeling a little frazzled and burnt out on your projects. But with plenty of time left to go, you need to try and avoid burnout as much as you can.  As some background, this past summer I hit some of the worst burnout […]