Inspiration

4 Writing Routines You Can Live With

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Today’s article is written by regular contributor Sarah Baughman. I like schedules. I remember at one point in my life actually managing to, say, go running, teach six classes, make a meatloaf, and get some writing done all on the same day. But lately, with a toddler and newborn in the house, “scheduling” mostly means just ensuring

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5 Places to Find New Article-Writing Ideas

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Today’s post is written by Krissy Brady, a semi-finalist in the Write It Sideways regular contributor search. Thanks, Krissy! One fear many writers have when they begin building a freelance writing career is the fear of running out of ideas. While I used to find thinking of salable ideas to be an intimidating process, I now

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5 Reasons To Sign Up For A Writers’ Conference

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Today’s post is written by Sarah Baughman, a semi-finalist in the Write It Sideways regular contributor search. Thanks, Sarah! Why should you sign up for a writers’ conference? You can’t afford not to. That’s the bottom line. Sure, writers’ conferences require two things many of us feel we lack anyway—money and time—but they give us an

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Imitation as Inspiration: An Exercise for Writers

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Today’s post is written by Sarah Baughman, a semi-finalist in the Write It Sideways regular contributor search. Thanks, Sarah! What is it you love most about your favorite writers? Lush descriptions, startling metaphors, characters so real you can imagine inviting them over for coffee? I’ve often wished that, just for a day, I could borrow a

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Can You Really Call Yourself ‘A Writer’?

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Today’s post is written by Sarah Callender, a semi-finalist in the Write It Sideways regular contributor search. Thanks, Sarah! I don’t know about you, but for a long time, whenever a well-intentioned someone asked what I did professionally, I instantly became a mammering, mealy-mouthed mugwump. It just felt so audacious, not to mention goofy, to

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How People-Watching Makes You a Better Writer

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The recent search for two paid contributors to Write It Sideways has yielded wonderful results. I received more applications than I could have imagined, and had the enormous challenge of narrowing down the list to just a handful of very talented writers. I look forward to sharing the most promising articles with you during November. 

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