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NaNoWriMo Writing Roots Giveaway 2020

Hey all, it’s NaNoWriMo! We wanted to a little something special to help encourage our listeners to finish their novels and put what they’ve learned through the podcast to good use. So we’ve decided to do little giveaway. Well, two giveaways, to be precise. This is completely free to you guys just because we appreciate…

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Writing Roots: What’s New and Upcoming for the Podcast

New things are coming to the Writing Roots Podcast! Leigh and Ley decided to condense all of the announcements into one bonus episode to introduce you to what’s to come. Our first announcement is about a problem recently discovered and fixed. If you listen to Writing Roots on podcast apps such as Stitcher, Google, and…

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New and Exciting Adventures for Writing Roots

We are approaching one year since the beginning of Writing Roots. It has been a wonderful time, and we don’t plant to stop any time soon. There are several things in the works to help us expand. Creating a podcast – especially one released twice a week – takes a lot of time and effort….

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December: Writer’s Frequently Asked Questions

Writing is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell

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November: The Writer’s Toolbox

If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did. – Roy Peter Clark

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October: Writing What You Don’t Know

“Being a writer, then, is as much about observation as it is imagination.”

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September: Final Draft

When you’re done celebrating, you may be asking “what’s next?”

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August: First Draft

This is the most difficult part of writing. Simply writing.

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