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This is an alphabetical list of Best Words blog posts with advice on writing. Most are written by me; guests posts are indicated. Also included are guest posts I did on other sites. These are all clickable links.

-A-
A Close Up View (editing)
Advice to New Writers
Appropriate Sensory Details for Your Setting
Appropriation
Are You Protecting Your Writing?
Awkward Critiques

-B-
Backstory Bog
Best Beginning Words
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 1
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 2
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 3
But That's How People Talk

-C-
Catchy Words and Rhythm Reel Us In
Clean Links
Close Point of View or Staying in One Head
Committed to Writing
Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (part 1) - my guest post on another author's blog aimed at teen writers
Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (part 2) - my guest post on another author's blog aimed at teen writers
Comparison, the Enemy of Creation
Connecting with Other Writers
Crashed Cajun Nuts (considering our words)

-D-
Dangling Participles (guest post)
Downs and Ups

-E-
Edit or Not?

-F-
Finding a Critique Group
Flashbacks

-G-
Getting Feedback on Christian Fiction
Getting Started Writing Your Novel
Getting the Setting Details Right (Guest Post)
Getting to the End
Good Critique, A
Got Grammar?

-H-
How to Boost Branding like a Boss for Beginning Self-Publishers (guest post)

-I-
The Importance of a Book Cover
I’m Terrible at Public Speaking
Introduce the Cat
Introspection Insights
It's Taxing

-J-
Join the Conversation
Jumping into the Story

-L-
Life's Disruptions
Likable Characters - my guest post on another author's blog

-M-
Maybe I Should Quit
My Best Tips from the Trenches on Revision - my guest post on another author's blog
My Writer's Journey - guest post on another author's blog
My Writing Process Related to the Books I Loved - a guest post on another author's blog

-P-
Path to Publication - guest post on another author's blog
Persistence Is the Key - an interview with Rachel J. Good
Pleonasms and Other Overusages

-Q-
Queries Can Teach

-R-
Reviews and Other Publicity
Rewriting, again!
Romans 8:28 for the Fiction Writer

-S-
Self-Editing aka Rewriting My Fiction
Short Story Versus Novel
Showing and Telling
Six Elements for Openings
Slow Writing
So You Want to Be an Author (guest post)
Stay in the Phone Booth
A Story Roadmap - my guest post on another author's blog
Story Timelines
Stronger

-T-
Taglines and Beats in Fiction
Take Courage
Tantalizing Titles
Thanks to Copy Editors
Transitions
Travel Reading -- the Ups and Downs
Try Something New

-W-
Waiting Game, The
We All Make Mistakes
What Holds Our Writing Together?
What Makes a Likeable Character?
When the Words Won't Come
Why I Write Clean
Words Beget Words
Writer + Tenacity = Success - my guest post on another author's blog
Writing a Believable Christian Character - my guest post on another author's blog
Writing Encouragement
Writing Feeling Dry? Vary Sentences to Make Your Writing Interesting (guest post)
Writing Mistakes
Writing on Hold