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Revision Checklist: What I Use to Stay on Track
A little list to make sure your manuscript sings
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Mary Carroll Moore
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First Sunday Q&A: Is Your Writing Expansive or Contracted?
Do you know your natural tendency as a writer? Its benefits and handicaps? How to realize and discover what you do without knowing, then balance the…
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Entrainment: What You Hold Close, Creates Who You Are
An immutable law that cautions us to choose our influences--and our teachers--wisely. Something to consider, this new year.
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Mary Carroll Moore
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December 2024

The Gift of Necessary Boredom
Why writers need to be creatively aimless
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Mary Carroll Moore
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When Your Persistence Disappears
Ending a creative year by taking heart from famous writers' rejections--a few good ones to bolster your courage as we wrap up 2024 and face 2025
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Deep Attention When Creating
An exploration of being fully present when you're writing, its creative and mental health benefits, and why (no surprise!) it's so challenging right now
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Happy Holidays and Some Writerly Gift Ideas
A few gifts I'd love to get or give, maybe you would too?
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Mary Carroll Moore
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First Sunday Q&A: Should This Person Even Be in My Story?
You love writing them, but how do you tell if they really contribute? How to look for the "why" of each person in your story via a simple bio exercise
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Mary Carroll Moore

November 2024

Gratitude List Exercise
Gratitude's sustaining benefit to the creative life and why I make a practice of it
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Finding the Pivot in All the Problems
Theme in fiction and memoir is built on "key conflict." What is it and how do you locate it in your own writing?
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Tricky Relationships
Why a mix and match of types of relationships makes for stronger stories
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Mary Carroll Moore
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Create Pressure to Release Pressure
Your writing practice can sustain you right now, more than ever.
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Mary Carroll Moore
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