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Frog Your Words

Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

It’s really cold in my office lately, so I decided to crochet the yarn a friend gave me for Christmas into a pair of wrist warmers for work. The pattern

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Plant a Garden of Curiosity Seeds

Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

One of the favorite writing terms that I picked up over the past year is “curiosity seeds.” Curiosity seeds are exactly like they sound like: little questions sprinkled into the

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Get In the Action

Posted on October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 by Stace Dumoski

At my writers’ group last night, we reviewed two pieces that suffered from variations of the same flaw: trying to portray characters by having the narrator tell you all about

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When Should You Hire a Developmental Editor?

Posted on June 10, 2022June 4, 2024 by Stace Dumoski
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No matter where you are in the writing process, a developmental editor is a solid investment that will help your book find success.

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Suddenly, an Editor Cried Out in Horror, or How to Write Surprise

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 by Stace Dumoski

Dropping “suddenly” at the beginning of a sentence is a shorthand way of creating tension due to an unexpected change in circumstances. But it is not meaningful tension, and it

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Stace Dumoski

Fantasy Writer & Editor