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writing tips

We hope you enjoy these insightful articles contributed by HeartLa members. If you would like to reprint an article, please contact the author directly. Their byline includes a link to their email address.

Forget all the "Stuff"
by Rhonda McKey
Has learning about the business of writing killed your creative output? Read how HeartLa member Rhonda McKey has started to counteract too much "stuff" and get her creative groove back. (It must be working because Rhonda has two novellas that recently finaled in contests!) Read Forget all the "Stuff" by Rhonda McKey.

Taking out the Trash
by Sylvia Rochester
HeartLa author Sylvia Rochester shows how to clean up your manuscript by "taking out the trash." Read Taking out the Trash by Sylvia Rochester.

What Would You Do?
by Elaine Grant
To revise or not to revise. What to do when you've written the "perfect manuscript" and an agent asks for edits. Do you follow your heart and leave this book carved in stone or spend the time revising a 350 page manuscript that the agent still might not like? Read What Would You Do? by Elaine Grant.

Our Internal Editor
by Nancy Brandt
One of the reasons that many people talk about writing a book but few people actually finish is the Internal Editor. Get your story on paper and then let the editor out. Read Our Internal Editor by Nancy Brandt.

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RITA award, Nancy Brandt
Nancy Brandt hams it up with an "on loan" RITA award from author Linnea Sinclair. The lopped off head confirms that photographer (and two-time RITA nominee) Elaine Grant only has eyes for one thing.

 

Joan Wallyn, Hailey North
HeartLa treasurer Joan Wallyn and bestselling author Hailey North (guest speaker at our 2007 Readers Luncheon).

 

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