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How to Achieve Success in 2018

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 21, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The new year will be upon us soon, and it’s a good time to make plans to increase our chances of publication success in 2018. Now, it helps to know what you…

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How to Title Your Book

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 14, 20171 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalg > Coming up with a title for your work in progress can be easy or really hard. Sometimes the title comes to you early, and you just always know what you want to…

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Method To My Madness Part 2

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Last week I touched on how I began writing fiction—and how my first two characters (Gary and Michaela) dropped in on me, unannounced, in freshman English class. Today I’ll unpack more of my writing process. When I write,…

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How and Why I Do What I Do

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 5, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Method to My Madness—Sort Of I often get asked about my process. How do you write your novels? Where do you begin? How do you keep going? And what do you do once you’re finished? Great series…

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Want Some Exercise?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 30, 20173 Comments

Writing exercises can be fun. They can also help you exercise your writing muscles and break through a block you might be having. Try these exercises today!

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Compare and Despair or Mentor Texts? – Institute for Writers

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 9, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Competition Some book publishers are now specifically asking writers to look at competing books when sending in manuscript submissions, partial submissions, queries, or book proposals. And this request can seem overwhelming…

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When the Ideas Won’t Come

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 2, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the questions writers tend to be asked a lot is “where do you get your ideas?” Of course, two other questions are “can you read something for me?” and “can…

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Putting It All Together

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > We’ve talked about voice, tone, and humor. We’ve also discussed viewpoint. But how do we make it all work seamlessly? And can you use the same tools in nonfiction as you do in your fiction writing? It is…

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Writing Samples, Part Deux: Nonfiction

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 26, 2017Leave a comment

Good nonfiction writing samples have things in common with fiction ones, but they also have specific requirements, so let’s check out the difference.

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Six Ways to Gear Up for NaNoWriMo Now!

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 26, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It’s coming! Are you ready? You’re probably asking, “What’s coming?” Why, National Novel Writing Month, of course. It rolls around every November, that magical month when writers all across this great land of ours shut out every other…

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Whose Story is it Anyway? Thoughts On Viewpoint

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 24, 20171 Comment

Zeroing in on the viewpoint and finding the right way into the story is difficult. Check out these tips to consider when choosing the POV of your story.

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Keeping Separate Writing Separate

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 12, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Some writers write only one sort of book: picture books, mysteries, science fiction, humor, racy romance, etc. But many writers jump around in their careers and tackle whatever project bubbles up in…

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Finding the Right Tone for Your Story

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 10, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > We’ve talked about “voice” now it is time to meet its twin sister, “tone.” If you are writing for publication, or for a specific publication, no matter what the genre, and you strike a tone that is too…

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Creating Quality Dialogue

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 5, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > A while ago on the Institute’s Facebook page, someone was asking about dialogue, which made me think again about this important writing tool. Readers love dialogue because it makes a scene and a…

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Training Your Writer’s Voice to Come Out to Play

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueOctober 3, 20172 Comments

A writer’s voice is his or her fingerprint on a piece of work. It’s like DNA when it’s authentic. How do you define and develop your writer’s voice? Read on!

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How to Choose Your Educational Writing Sample | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 28, 20172 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Secrets to Samples Many of us who write for educational publishers are very familiar with samples. These are the bits of writing publishers use to judge whether you’re a writer who…

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How Does It All End?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 21, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Talking about how to end a book or story is a bit harder than talking about how to begin one. The first paragraph of a book doesn’t really count as a spoiler…

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Comma Long With Me and Celebrate Punctuation Day | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 19, 2017Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It’s like they created a day just for folks like me, people who are (admittedly or not) obsessed with punctuation… proper punctuation and not-so-proper punctuation. As a professional proofreader and editor, Punctuation Day is especially dear to my…

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How to Write Craft Articles Magazines Will Buy | IFW

PodcastBy Jacque IrizarrySeptember 15, 20171 Comment

068: How to Write Craft Articles Magazines Will Buy
September 15, 2017

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When It All Starts to Sag

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueSeptember 14, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Momentum is a delicate thing in writing. Sometimes you start out revving along in a novel, falling in love with your main character, fascinated by the situation you’re creating and cranking out…

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