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The Business Of Being A Writer With Jane Friedman

You can make a living with your writing if you change your mindset and educate yourself around the business as…

Joanna Penn

How To Write A Scene That Works: The Story Grid Way

It can be easy to assume that writing a story is just about getting words on the page. After all,…

Joanna Penn

How To Use Grammarly To Improve Your Writing

We rarely see the errors in our own writing, which is why I'm a super fan of using professional editors…

Joanna Penn

How Play Can Help You Overcome Anxiety And Become More Creative With Charlie Hoehn

Writers can be pretty serious people :) but we all need rest and play in our lives as well as…

Joanna Penn

How To Find And Work With A Professional Editor

I love editors and proofreaders. They make our books better! In this article and video I go through why you…

Joanna Penn

How Do You Find Time To Write?

Probably the most common question I hear from writers is "How do I find the time to write?" In this…

Joanna Penn

Creative Lessons From Screenwriting With J.F. Penn

I’ve just finished a fantastic screenwriting short course at the National Film and Television School and in today’s show, I’m…

Joanna Penn

Writing Tips: How Writers Can Use Punctuation To Great Effect

Commas are my personal nemesis. Those tiny little marks on a page can completely change the sense of a sentence,…

Joanna Penn

Writing Tips: Show, Don’t Tell

Today I'm talking about "show, don't tell," one of the most common adages thrown around in the writing community, and…

Joanna Penn

Writing About Death, Dying, And Grief With Dr Karen Wyatt

Death is an inevitable part of life. We spend a lot of time trying to forget that fact but as…

Joanna Penn