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CREATIVE, EH??














      doubt this about yourself, unless you have at          available for a lifetime.

      least sampled what the Academy has to offer                Just two of the materials, among those
      for six months or more.) Even if, their March          available to me for a lifetime, are worth more
      offering blew me away, and made it worth               than $50 to me. One of them addresses many
      many years of donating and participating.              ways of honing my craft, and one helps me build

          Academy members were given the chance              my own worlds for fantasy works. I strongly






















      to purchase the Writer’s Craft 2.0 Superstack,         encourage you to at least check out the Academy.

      over $3,000 worth of resource materials, for               Now that we’ve explored the four tools I
      $50. I took advantage of the offer, receiving          mentioned in January, it’s time to get “down and
      50 different resources for my $50 remittance.          dirty.” Starting next month I’ll dive in to specific
          To be totally transparent here, some of            ways to improve your writing, drawing on some

      the materials offered in the stack are not             of the material I’ve shared in workshops and
      of interest to me. I don’t plan on writing             conversations with other writers.
      any memoirs or nonfiction, so a few of the
      references related to those types of material

      aren’t of interest to me (yet). And some of
      the resources are only available for a three-
      or six-month period; although many are






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