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     Monday Motivation: The evolution of a scene
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 9, 2022

    Monday Motivation: The evolution of a scene

    We’ve often quoted a guru who urged writers to use details that were “specific, accurate and honest”. The use of that last adjective has always puzzled me. How can a detail be “honest”? I’ve come [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Banishing self-consciousness
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted May 2, 2022

    Monday Motivation: Banishing self-consciousness

    We’ve often quoted a guru who urged writers to use details that were “specific, accurate and honest”. The use of that last adjective has always puzzled me. How can a detail be “honest”? I’ve come [...]

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     Monday Motivation: How to become a confident writer
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted April 11, 2022

    Monday Motivation: How to become a confident writer

    Creative writing is not, as some suppose, an arcane art over which only the select few are ever granted mastery, or to which there is access via a magic key, a secret skill available only to the [...]

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     Monday Motivation: How to hurdle self-consciousness
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted August 23, 2021

    Monday Motivation: How to hurdle self-consciousness

    A quick word on a trick to hurdle that bane of all writers: self-consciousness. It came in an article in the Guardian about writing as “truthfully” as one can. I’ll […]

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     Monday Motivation: Good writers say it simply
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 24, 2019

    Monday Motivation: Good writers say it simply

    It’s an old story oft told but one worth telling and retelling: simple is best, clear is most beautiful. It’s true that writing requires artifice and contrivance. Threaded through even […]

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    Are we only interested, as writers, in what is cle Are we only interested, as writers, in what is clear and unambiguous – or should we ferret about in the contested territory between truth and lies? That’s the question Richard explores in this Monday’s Motivation. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/03/20/boundries_dissolve/ #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
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