Author name: Lani Longshore

Five Things You Need to Know About Your Artistic Legacy by Lani Longshore

1. You won’t have one if you don’t write. Just in case you thought the writing pixies would finish those notes you have in obscure files on your computer (or worse, only in your head), it doesn’t work that way. Write the story today. 2. Marketing shapes meaning. Writers may loath shameless self-promotion, but we …

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Don’t Kill Your Darlings – Put Them in Foster Care by Dan Hobbs

  There’s an old saying in the writing business: “Kill your darlings.” Some famous writer said it. I thought it was a charming insight into the importance of revising, rewriting and revising again, and cutting. Cuts are required, of course. Sacrifices must be made in the interest of the literary masterpiece flying across the screen on …

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