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Elise L. Blake
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Elise is a full-time writing coach and novelist. She is a recent college graduate from Southern New Hampshire University where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.
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Adopt These Small Writing Tricks to Make Your Writing Better. Top Story - January 2024.
Writing is one of those things that can't simply be learned through placing a large novel under your pillow at night and hoping the ability to weave stories will seep through the pages, into your pillow, and find its way into your creative brain.
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
The Myth of Success: Debunking the Illusion of Habits in Your Writing Journey
If you scroll down any blog you'll find post after post about writing habits, writing routines, productivity hacks, and almost ritualistic practices some writers will swear you need or you will never write your novel, or it will never be a best-seller, or the sexy singles in your area won't be able to find you. (am I showing my age here?)
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
There's Only One Thing Worse Than an Author That Doesn't Stop Talking About Their Novel
Never does. I have a small problem when it comes to certain quick form constant scrolling media sites on my phone. I can open the app to simply kill a few minutes here and there and somehow the next thing I know it's been almost twelve hours later, dinner is burning, the house is on fire, aliens have invaded, and my partner has run away with a circus clown - that's how suckered into it I can get.
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
Commonly Held Assumptions About Writing That Are Totally B.S.
It's pretty clear that movies, social media, television shows, books, and yes even blog posts about writing can give many writers different impressions of what it means to be an author and this can leave aspiring authors to hold misconceptions about what it means to be a writer.
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
Why 99% of Writers Give Up Before Completing Their First Book
While it may surprise you, with all the books that are published and placed on the shelves or found online each year, these novels only make up a tiny amount of the books that writers have begun to write with the hopes and dreams of publishing their very own books.
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
The Most Powerful Thing You Can Do As a Writer
It may be shocking to know that there is something even more powerful that a writer can do - other than writing. While writing is how we leave our mark on the world, giving readers powerful emotions through our stories with our ability to make them, laugh, cry, and fear that dark spot at the bottom of the basement stairs that not even the strongest of lights could chase away… it's not the most powerful thing we can do.
By Elise L. Blake6 months ago in Writers
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