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Writing — a word after a word after a word. How hard can it be?

  • Helloooo!!
  • Writing Because You Want To
    • What I Didn’t Say
    • Jumping Off Cliffs, Hoping to Grow Wings
    • Aaaaaah! Sto-o-opp!
    • The Three Rules of Writing
  • Writing Because You Have To
    • The Pain-Free Essay
      • 1. That Thing We All Do
      • 2. Stuckness
        • 2B. A Very Pleasant Essay Question
      • 3. The Inside of Your Head
      • 4. What Would Sherlock Do?
      • 5. One Thing to Rule Them All
      • 6. Now Head for the Hills – no really.
      • 7. Boooorrrrdawwwwm
      • 8. If you thought THAT was scary …
      • 9. The hardest and easiest part
      • 10a. That other part
      • 10b. The Other Part of That Other Part
      • 10c. The last part of that other part
      • 11. Surging ahead now
      • 12. The Actual Writing
      • 13. The Actual, Actual Writing
      • 14. Here’s something that might make writing re-e-a-ally easy
      • 15. How good do you want this to be?
    • The One Night Essay
      • If You Really Have Only One Night to Write an Essay
      • Twelve Steps to the One Night Essay
  • Blog
    • Are you one? Am I?
    • Process? What process?
    • Walk away. Walk away now.
    • Our Little Secret
    • Eight Secrets Writers Won’t Tell You
    • The One Thing You Must Do — Always
    • Vivid
    • This will save you hours and hours
    • Kidding Yourself

Lu-urve

March 4, 2017August 6, 2018 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

So you want to write romance ...

Ideas? Here, Have Some of Mine.

March 2, 2017May 19, 2018 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

What do we mean by the word 'idea'? The things that inspire a story can be very small.

You Will Get Sick of Your Own Writing

February 28, 2017May 19, 2018 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Writing is hard. If you want to produce something good, it's probably going to take a lot of drafts.

Another Kind of Beauty

February 28, 2017March 3, 2017 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

A piece of writing has its own kind of beauty.

Vivid

January 30, 2017February 5, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Find the thing that most inspires you about your story.

Kidding Yourself

September 1, 2016May 19, 2018 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Why do we spend so much time on other things?

This will save you hours and hours

July 20, 2016May 19, 2018 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

I wish someone had told me this when I first started writing.

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