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SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to write what you know

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Josh Roseman

People write what they want to be true, because that’s what they know: they’re stuck in boring or dysfunctional lives and they want out. From SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to write what you know.

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SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Josh Roseman

It’s NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days and then start submitting it to publishers without any editing or peer-critiquing, and then getting butthurt on the internet when their stories don’t … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: research

SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to write what you know

SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story

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