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Writer Roadmaps with Steve Chang
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steve chang
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How to Freelance Book Reviews and Why You Should
Why negative reviews and soft coverage are both valid, what a pitch can do beyond securing us work, and why a little "randomness" in a review can be…
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steve chang
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The October Forever Workshop Is Scary Good
Introducing your instructor and what you'll be learning this month!
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Shelby Stretton
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Kayla Kumari
1

September 2024

Writing Opportunity For Forever Workshop Paid Subscribers
Money & Fame
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The Forever Workshop
3
How to Conduct Better Interviews: 5 Tips for Deeper Q&As
Why acting confused isn’t just for the hardware or bookstore, interviewing vs interrogating and why it’s good to share personal baggage
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steve chang
How to Level Up Your (Interview) Pitches: A Breakdown
What is essential in a strong pitch, how to prep for emailing strangers and how to advance yourself even when pitches don’t go
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steve chang
4
How to Write Across Genres and Stay Winning
How to finish a book-length project (quickly), why we should focus more on craft than career and how to gauge and assert our value in the market
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steve chang
30
How to Land a Major Deal for Your YA Novel
How Reddit and YouTube can help writers, how to get agents on the phone and what to ask, and what sorts of discipline it takes to write novels
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steve chang
How to Grow Your Writing Career Through Literary Translation
How to bring a translation from discovery to publication, why personality matters more than “talent” and how to plug into the whisper nfetwork
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steve chang
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How to Become an NEA (and Stegner!) Fellow
Turning literary icons into personal mentors, tips for crafting effective statements of purpose and how to overcome being stuck on "The Ladder of…
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steve chang
1
How to Become a Reese's Book Club LitUp Author
Plus how publishing in lit mags might be overrated, which workshops and classes actually help, & why MFAs and New York aren't always it
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steve chang
21

August 2024

The Surrealists Toolkit - Creating Prose Poems From Everyday Madness
With Editor-In-Chief of ONLY POEMS and award winning poet Karan Kapoor
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Karan Kapoor
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