Daphne Gray-Grant

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How to pitch to blogs and magazines

This is a post on how to pitch to blogs and magazines. Even if that subject doesn’t relate to your ambitions, give the post a quick glance. It may spark some ideas applicable to your own writing goals. Identify and develop your own particular subject area. If you try to be an expert on everything […]

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PubCoach Top 10: November 2019

Each week I go through a Halloween grab bag of more than 100 blogs about writing, publishing and psychology, pulling out the Crunchie bars and Smarties I especially like. Here’s my take on the 10 most interesting pieces I’ve read or seen during the last month (each headline is linked to the piece I’ve highlighted):

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How to make a better writing schedule for yourself

Keep in mind there is no “one-size-fits-all” when it comes to determining a writing schedule. The 16 tips I’m giving you below are designed to help YOU recognize what’s going to work best for you. While not all of them will work for every person, I’m know that everyone will be able to take away

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The value of forgiving yourself…

If you’re like me — like most people — you probably have a hard time forgiving yourself. Forgiving yourself for mistakes to others is hard enough: the time you forgot to do something you’d promised to do for a friend the time you yelled at your partner or your children the time you failed to

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NaNoWriMo

Is NaNoWriMo for you?

Reading time: Just over 4 minutes A whispered word, NaNoWriMo stirs equal measures of fear and interest in many writers. Why? And is the program a good idea? Do you want to write a book quickly?  Say, in 100 days? Nothing strikes me as a crazier idea, although I’ve recently seen a number of posts promoting the

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The TV show Frasier solved its continuity problem with a simple explanation

How to edit for continuity (in fiction writing)

Continuity is a term that is largely used in the TV and movie industry. This is because films are rarely shot in the order in which they are presented because the shooting schedule is often dictated by location permit issues. For example, a character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a

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Mistakes I made with my book

Reading time: About 6 minutes Are you considering self-publishing a book? Here are the mistakes I made when producing Your Happy First Draft.  Some 30 years ago, when I was an editor for a large metropolitan daily newspaper, I had a terrible boss. But I was lucky enough to qualify for some management coaching. And

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Why it’s always better to edit LATER

You have undoubtedly already read some of my many entreaties to break the habit of editing WHILE you write. (For the record, my post with the most useful tips about how to achieve this goal is here.) But today I want to explain in detail the important reasons for taking this step. The first relates

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