Category: writing technique

Day 10 Writing Workout

Nov 21, 2025

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Ace Baker

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This is a post about using imagery in imaginative ways in your writing.
Day 08 Writing Workout

Sep 8, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Today, we learn how and why to track all of those submissions you are sending out!
Day 07 Writing Workout

Sep 6, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Writing workout 7 focuses on writing contests…what they can do for you, and how you can make the most of them for your writer platform!
Day 06 Writing Workout

Sep 4, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Today, we find out the benefits and possibilities for finding markets FIRST and writing to them!
Day 05 Writing Workout

Sep 3, 2025

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Ace Baker

in choose your weapon, fiction, knockout idea, nonfiction, novels, poetry, short stories, writing analysis, writing technique, writing workout

Today is a chance to put what you’ve learned in workouts 1 through 4 into practice. Let’s get to it!
Day 02 Writing Workout

Aug 31, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Day two is all about looking at a creative work in one form and transforming it into a work of writing! Ekphrasis!
Day 01 Writing Workout

Aug 30, 2025

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Ace Baker

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A great writing habit that you definitely have time for in your day!
POWER POSITIONS IN PROSE: Niloufar-Lily Soltani’s ZULAIKHA

Nov 20, 2023

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Ace Baker

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I met Lily Soltani at the Robson Indigo bookstore this past weekend, where she was doing a book signing. In fact, I was the first to get a signed copy… I cracked open the cover, began to read, and quickly discovered what the publisher, Inanna, must have noticed when they selected this book for publication;…
STELLA NOVELLA? Mel Anastasiou can certainly TELLA tale!

Aug 28, 2014

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Ace Baker

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Memorable characters–they’re the lifeblood of strong storytelling. Artist, writer, and editor Mel Anastasiou understands that all too well… Anastasiou is the author of several Stella Novellas, mysteries featuring an unlikely heroine: Stella, the octogenarian star of her Fairmount Manor Mysteries. Yes, I said octogenarian. Imagine if Janet Evanovich’s Grandma Mazur got smarter and actually did…
Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…

Jul 24, 2014

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Ace Baker

in fancy footwork, knockout idea, writing technique

To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…