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My favorite first draft advice + 3 mistakes aspiring authors make when writing their first book draft

Do you know what most aspiring authors struggle with when they start writing their first draft? Over the past two years, I’ve surveyed the 400 aspiring authors who joined my Facebook book writing group and their answers usually fell within the following three categories: 1. They don’t know where to start. 2. They don’t know …

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Hemingway writing

Hemingway on Writing Well

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” (Credit: Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well)