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If you’re driven to tell your story, you may need to relive things you’d rather forget. Here’s why it’s important not to gloss over the tough stuff.

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Learn specific strategies for improving the core components of your YA book. Course: tinyurl.com/8xcj2yw
If we writers were put in a Hunger Games-like scenario, what writing weapon would you use to defend yourself? Why? Be creative.
Fictional Characters Most Likely to Be on the Receiving End of the St. Martin’s Marijuana Shipment ow.ly/9QaXq #potlit
We were just informed that our assistant editor @marielle_murphy just slipped on a banana peel. No joke. Thankfully she is OK.
Weighing options? @kellyjamesenger teaches "Book Publishing Options - What's Right For You?" New webinar, Jan 5
Weighing options? @kellyjamesenger teaches "Book Publishing Options - What's Right For You?" New webinar, Jan 5
Weighing options? @kellyjamesenger teaches "Book Publishing Options - What's Right For You?" New webinar, Jan 5,
"No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published." -Russell Lynes
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LAST CHANCE! 1 pm! Weighing options? @kellyjamesenger teaches "Book Publishing Options - What's Right For You?"
What's the best advice you received while attending a writing conference? #ConferenceAdvice
Start the new year off right. Get Started Kit helps you figure it out.
Author and archetype expert Victoria Schmidt offers character building advice:
We asked bestselling author & #WDC12 Keynote @ajjacobs about his writing habits; currently it's writing on a treadmill
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What Are Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions? - bit.ly/AhsJ2r (We're getting great responses. Join in!)
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10 Ways to Harness Fear and Fuel Your Writing -
Lit agent Mary Kole @kid_lit is doing an intensive picture book webinar (w/full critique!) this Thurs, Jan 12 tinyurl.com/7m72l5o
Check out this interview with WRITER'S COMPASS author Nancy Dodd on the Your Plot Thickens blog: http://bit.ly/iz0UFi
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