March 29, 2025
Book cover in red and fawn - The Book - Writer's Resource, Nonfiction Review by Tandy Malinak
Published by Tandy Malinak at March 29, 2025
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The Book – A Review

The Book is as much a history lesson as it is a mystery, revealing more than it conceals, but always leaving a few things a little unraveled for our imagination to wonder at — for so history itself, with its often patchy evidence, demands.
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March 7, 2025
Podcast - Man in white crew neck t-shirt
Published by Sue Cook at March 7, 2025
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The Best Platforms for Podcasters

There are more hosting sites available all the time with both pay and free options. Pay sites have the benefit of providing your podcast a larger audience due to advertising. If budget is tight, free is always good.
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May 6, 2024
various time watches and pieces
Published by Tandy Malinak at May 6, 2024
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Worldbuilding 101: Timelines, Your Story Sequence

Timelines establish the sequence or schedule for your story. Everything on them should be necessary to the world or your characters and must be done in a precise order so that what you create makes sense in story form.
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March 6, 2024
photo of book cover - Keep Your Voice Healthy - in teal and beige-pink
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at March 6, 2024
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Keep Your Voice Healthy: A Review for Singers, Actors, Podcasters, and Others Who Use Their Voices Regularly

Take the advice for protecting your voice during illness seriously. Use the suggestions as you perform with your instrument as if they were gospel. Welcome the sometimes-gross descriptions of your inner workings so you can better know how to use, protect, and save those vocal cords.
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March 2, 2024
electric guitar on amp with swirls in background - writing prompts: music story prompts
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at March 2, 2024
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Writing Prompts in Images: Music Story Prompts

This year, we thought we'd try a series of content for writers in visual format: writing prompts in images. Being a huge music nerd who's reviving her love of performance, I thought I'd start with music story prompts. It may be a bit niche but you never know what these images could spark for your writing exercises or even those novels you've been puttering your way through. Enjoy!
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February 18, 2024
notebook, pencil camera laid on top of a map
Published by Tandy Malinak at February 18, 2024
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Worldbuilding 101: Story Setting, Your World’s Framework

Story setting is more than just the physical stuff. It’s the mood and culture, period and genre, and many other things all wrapped into one. But it’s worth parsing out to find the sticky spots in your work that need more detail.
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November 18, 2023
various construction site images
Published by Tandy Malinak at November 18, 2023
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Worldbuilding 101: Characters, the Story Foundation

Your characters are worldbuilding tools, but they are also much more. Use them correctly, interact with them as if they were real, and you’ll see them come to life. They’ll become the guides to your storyline and world.
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October 26, 2023
Published by Tandy Malinak at October 26, 2023
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Worldbuilding 101: Maps, the Story Blueprint

Your map represents the world your characters live in. It might be as small as a doll’s house or as large as a multi-galaxy supercluster, and that’s fine…provided you can keep it all straight.
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July 11, 2023
writing page with flowers
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at July 11, 2023
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Encouraging Pushback from Writers: An Industry Standard Break

One of the standards I have run across many times myself as a writer and journalist has been that of punishing writers for speaking their minds and expressing their voices. I can think of many times a professor, a fellow journalist, or writer’s club member has mentioned being suppressed at the hands of their editor(s). The editor holds all the power.
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December 8, 2021
Blurred out woman playing electic guitar - character bios
Published by Rita Mock-Pike at December 8, 2021
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Writing Tip: Create Character Bios

Writing a character biography can be one of the most helpful things to do when writing a book. In fact, those character bios about your primary and secondary characters may very well be the best tool for creating the perfect twists and turns for your plot to keep your readers engag
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