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• 4 Life-Changing New Year’s Lessons for Writers: Instead of goals, this year try focusing on New Year’s lessons and how you can move forward in building upon their foundation.
• The 5 Secrets of Good Storytelling (That Writers Forget All the Time): Discover the five most important secrets of good storytelling–which also happen to be the five most common problems in modern books and movies.
• 4 (Possible) Reasons Why We Write: Today, let's tell ourselves the story of why we write. Realizing the answers can help open up a new understanding of how to write bigger, better, clearer, and keener.
• The Words That Changed Your Life: Discovering What Made You a Writer: Exploring the formative influences that made you a writer is a vastly worthwhile venture. Here's how to move forward into a better understanding of why you're drawn to the kind of stories you write.
• 4 Ways for Writers to Become Better Readers: Here are four reading resolutions you can make this year that will help you become better readers–and improve your writing skills along the way.