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Writing About Writing About Writing
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A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.

Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.

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I've got a writing book problem: When I have a book writing problem, I pick up a writing book, and since writing is hard I've read dozens of writing books in the last decade. This is my attempt to make sense of them.
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Writing About Writing About Writing
Writing book reviews and tools
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As I work on a list of books to review for next year I've been thinking again about what a great resource Murder Your Darlings is. Wisdom from 50+ writing books for the time of one!

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Murder Your Darlings - Roy Peter Clark
Clark summarizes over 50 writing books in six categories, with insightful commentary and bullet-pointed lessons at the end of each chapter.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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writing an anthropology paper on return to office mandates today so that relies on facts lol #writingcommunity
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What facts are you drawing attention to with your writing today?

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December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Good advice for identifying and avoiding the kind of scams that send you bogus copyright infringement notices
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Televised sporting events have color commentary. Does your novel? Agent and teacher Don Maass explains the need, today at WU.
Keeping Score
[Note to Keith Cronin: I am dictating this post while commuting in my car, simultaneously listening to The New York Times being read aloud. I’ll finish this post by the time I arrive at my office.]…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
November's #writingabtwriting Reading report contains some excellent writing advice from Chuck Wendig and Ilona Andrews, plus two fun games and some excellent reading.

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Reading Report: November 2025
Luddite Literature, two excellent games to try, and a pair of excellent books read in in this month's Reading Report. Now with added acountability!
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December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Looking for a gift for a writer?
Here are my top five options.

What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?

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Writing Books to Gift Writers
Writing books sure to please your writer friends.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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A community of writers can lift us up and, when needed, push us along. Author Harper Ross shares her gratitude for her recent experience at the UnConference, today at WU.
Giving Thanks For The Writers At My Table
On Thursday, most of us will gather around the Thanksgiving table with close family and friends, expressing our gratitude for one another and the things that bring us happiness. Today, I want to …
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November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How do you maintain enthusiasm for a writing project, especially when they can drag on for years? The answer might lie in Begeisterung.

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Finding Begeisterung
Begeisterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Writing Quotes. Yea or nay?

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November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What would happen if you just believed you could?

I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
Self sabotage? In this economy?
YouTube video by struthless
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November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
*sigh* how did you know about my cable box of shame? I'd clean it out, but I might *need* a four-foot coax cable or a type B cable in the future?
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It’s this beautiful out.
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When Dwight Swain was teaching workshops my granddad was still in college. Yet much of his advice rings true today. If I was teaching a class, this is the book we'd use.

Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.

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Techniques of the Selling Writer - Dwight V. Swain
A 50’s era pulp writer speed runs your writing knowledge. If I was teaching a college course today on writing fiction, this is the book we’d use as a textbook.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In this house we share each other's work.
Congrats Erin!
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fuck AI. Copy like an artist instead.

When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.

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Tool: The Master Study
Today we are going to steal a tool from the visual artist’s cabinets and see if we can bang it into shape that works for writers. It’s called a Master Study, and it’s part copying, part analysis, and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Today's tea is Yorkshire gold with sweetened condensed milk and some Sam Delaney on "Begiesterung" for an upcoming #writingabtwriting article.

"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."

🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM