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Ellen T. McKnight

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As a writer and reader, I look to books for many things: insight, beautiful language, entertainment, connection. Reading does this in a singular way. We can never be other than alone in our own heads, and yet that is where writers and readers connect, and where fiction almost magically comes to life.

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Writing Matters

Practical Pointers

Get Out to Lean In
Tech Tips for Writers
Watchman: Cynicism or Hope
Book Research Take Two
Pitch with Irony and Heart
Beta Readers vs Critiquers

Good Books for Writers and Readers

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Let the Great World Spin
The Corrections
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Blue Angel
The Secret Life of Bees
Olive Kitteridge
Disobedience
The Hours
Digging to America
Memoirs of a Geisha
March
Criminals
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Before and After

Links to Great Sites

Green Room
Welcoming community for writers
Jane Friedman
Writing advice for all levels
K.M. Weiland
Helping writers become authors
Live Write Thrive
Writing and career advice
Nathan Bransford
Insights from a former agent
She Writes
Writing community for women
Write It Sideways
Advice from different perspectives
Writers Helping Writers
Collaborative approach to better writing
Writer Unboxed
Posts on craft and business

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pitch • resilience • details • sympathetic imagination • play • connection • stakes • specificity • closeness • hope • practice • voice • insight • metaphor • scene • truth • reimagine • irony • plot • business of writing • theme • what if? • discovery • tension • point of view • critique • research • risk • heart • trust • unreliability • state of mind • surprise • depth • humor • resolution • secrets • revision • free indirect style • pace • place • show • rhythm • character • empathy

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