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Crit Matching Program Public Beta and a new feature for published authors by Leslie Dow

Hi Ya’ll! While we’ve all been social distancing and staying home, the elves at SavvyAuthors have been busy making tweaks and site improvements. The first one might be a bit hidden so I want to be sure you see it — particularly if you are a published author. The second is that we are opening …

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How to Recognize Great Advice When it Smacks You in the Face by Christine Amsden

If you’re serious about becoming a great writer, then you need to do more than write. Sooner or later, you have to let someone read what you’ve written and (gasp) ask them to give you an honest opinion. Now, as your heart races and your palms begin to sweat, you might find yourself playing out …

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How to Give Great Feedback During a Workshop by Joy Wright

Every writer must be not only a voracious reader but an analytical one. Every day we our inundated with media: some good, a lot mediocre, some bad, and very rarely, we read something great. We read, not only to improve our writing by learning to recognize good and great written works, but to learn …

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A Writer Needs Wisdom More Than Confidence by Lindsay Schopfer

What happens when you lose confidence? I’m a member of a number of online writing communities where writers from various genres and backgrounds gather to share successes, talk shop, and sometimes commiserate together about the difficulties that come with our chosen profession. Recently, I saw a post that was a perfect illustration of the last …