E. J. Dawson

Category: #inspiration

  • 8 Ways to Improve your Novel

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    8 Ways to Improve your Novel To protect myself in 2024 I decided that I’d start charging for my ability to developmental edit a manuscript. After ten years of editor feedback, working with professionals, getting and giving constructive feedback, and the finalization of my Post Graduate Certificate of Creative Writing, I was ready. But how…

  • The Writer 2023 Couldn’t Kill

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    2023 was for some, not enough. I get that, but after the last five years feeling like that I took a few steps back, and decided I wasn’t going to keep second guessing myself. Hold up. This isn’t another 2024 resolutions page. Because these goals are already won, and I’m going to carry them into…

  • What’s With ND Rejection?

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    Blog Post: What’s with ND Rejection: We are so used to delivering exactly what we’re asked for because we spend our lives conforming to fit in, that when we’re given the chance to offer what they are asking for and we are shut down. #neurodiverse #authors #writers #writerslife #blogpost

  • Notes for Nightmares

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    My mother told me bedtime stories to send us to sleep. She kept telling them as we grew older, and the stories darker. She never meant to send us to bed with nightmares… not always. From the ring wraiths hunting us down, to the malevolent Nargun lurking to our door. The monsters outside might have…

  • Not Every Idea is a Novel

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    Not Every Idea is a Novel – short stories help you find the heart of your inspiration, the idea, and see if it is just an idea, or a novel. #writingtips #writers #amwriting #writerslife #shortstories #novels

  • Worthiness of Dreams

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    Worthiness of Dreams – My head is a strange place with big wolves inside who gnaw on the bones of my might. Who collapse this skeleton of dreams into splinters. What else did I deserve other than to be rejected? #writing #inspiration #writerslife #dreams

  • Journeying Pains

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    Journeying Pain Most writes say that their writing life is a journey and that it’s different for every writer. Ups and downs, versions of success, what they’re writing and how its published. So many different paths to take. But we have one thing in common: the doubt. The “what if” thoughts that are never or…

  • Butterfly to a Snake

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    Writing a whole novel, an honest over 70k full and complete manuscript, tears out your soul. But that doesn’t change that you wrote a whole book.

  • Writer Resources

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    Writer Resources – You want to write a/nother novel? Here’s a list of top notch inspiration and resources to get you started. #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #writers #writerscafe

  • The Wall

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    The Wall – Reassessing Failure #inspiration #writers #keepwriting #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity